# Lake County IL Lien Filings: Debtors, UCC & Tax Liens (`lienintel/lake-county-il-lien-filings`) Actor

Search Lake County, Illinois recorded liens and UCC filings by debtor, lender or document number. Get tax, mechanics, judgment, municipal and UCC filings with parties, amounts, dates and legal descriptions. $0.015 per record.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/lienintel/lake-county-il-lien-filings.md
- **Developed by:** [LienIntel - UCC & Secured Lending Intelligence.](https://apify.com/lienintel) (community)
- **Security:** Limited permissions
- **Stats:** 1 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $15.00 / 1,000 results

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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# README

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## Lake County IL Lien Filings: Debtors, UCC & Tax Liens

Search recorded **lien, tax-lien, judgment, municipal-lien and UCC filings in Lake County, Illinois:** Waukegan, North Chicago, Zion, Gurnee, Mundelein, Libertyville, Round Lake, Highland Park, Lake Zurich and the rest of the county, by debtor, lender, claimant or exact document number. Get the parties, lien family, filing type, release flag, recording date, amount, document number and legal description as flat rows.

Lake County's Recorder publishes an online index of recorded land records and UCC filings. This actor turns that public index into structured rows you can load into a CRM, a spreadsheet, a skip-trace, a title workflow or a credit-monitoring job.

Here is one real record from this actor. Long text and long lists are shortened here; a live run returns them in full. `source_page`, `source_url` are left out of this example and included in your dataset.

```json
{
  "record_id": "RP-8203636",
  "document_number": "8203636",
  "instrument_number": "8203636",
  "doc_type": "RELEASE-MECH LIEN",
  "doc_type_code": "RLM",
  "doc_group": "RP",
  "department": "RP",
  "department_label": "Land Records",
  "filing_type": "mechanics_lien_release",
  "filing_type_label": "Release of mechanics lien",
  "lien_category": "mechanics",
  "lien_category_label": "Mechanics lien",
  "is_ucc": false,
  "is_release": true,
  "is_secured": false,
  "recorded_date": "2026-10-30",
  "recorded_time": "4:57 PM",
  "instrument_date": null,
  "debtor_name": "TERZIAN STEVE",
  "debtor_names": "TERZIAN STEVE",
  "debtor_count": 1,
  "secured_party_name": "CAMPBELL HOME SERS LLC",
  "secured_party_names": "CAMPBELL HOME SERS LLC; AIRESERV PALATINE DBA",
  "secured_party_count": 2,
  "grantor_name": "CAMPBELL HOME SERS LLC",
  "grantor_names": "CAMPBELL HOME SERS LLC; AIRESERV PALATINE DBA",
  "grantee_name": "TERZIAN STEVE",
  "grantee_names": "TERZIAN STEVE",
  "party_direction": "grantee_debtor",
  "property_address": null,
  "parcel_numbers": null,
  "legal_description": null,
  "municipality": null,
  "subdivision": null,
  "lot": null,
  "block": null,
  "township": null,
  "amount_usd": null,
  "book": null,
  "volume": null,
  "page": null,
  "book_volume_page": null,
  "page_count": 2,
  "remarks": null,
  "marginal_references": "8066201",
  "parties_truncated": false,
  "source_doc_id": "332188126",
  "county": "Lake",
  "state": "IL",
  "source": "Lake County Recorder of Deeds (Illinois) public recorded-document index",
  "search_role": "new_filings",
  "search_term": null,
  "search_terms": "departments=RP,UCC; types=lien,federal_tax_lien,mobile_home_tax_lien,municipal_lien,state_lottery_lien,unemployment_tax_lien,tax_deferral_lien,mechanics_lien,chattel_lien,judgment, ...",
  "observed_at": "2026-10-31T17:12:54.867Z"
}
```

**[Input](https://apify.com/lienintel/lake-county-il-lien-filings/input-schema) | [Output](https://apify.com/lienintel/lake-county-il-lien-filings/output-schema) | [Pricing](https://apify.com/lienintel/lake-county-il-lien-filings/pricing)**

![Coverage](https://img.shields.io/badge/Coverage-Lake%20County%2C%20Illinois-blue)
![Output](https://img.shields.io/badge/Output-JSON%20%7C%20CSV%20%7C%20Excel-orange)
![Billing](https://img.shields.io/badge/Billing-Pay%20per%20result-brightgreen)

### Table of contents

- [What you get](#what-you-get)
- [Input and filters](#input-and-filters)
- [Use cases](#use-cases)
- [Coverage and freshness](#coverage-and-freshness)
- [Pricing](#pricing)
- [Comparison with other Apify actors](#comparison-with-other-apify-actors)
- [Related LienIntel actors](#related-lienintel-actors)
- [FAQ](#faq)
- [Run it through the Apify API](#run-it-through-the-apify-api)

### What you get

- **Parties:** debtor, taxpayer, property owner or defendant, plus the secured party, lender, taxing authority, judgment creditor or lien claimant. Both normalized roles and the raw grantor/grantee names are included.
- **Lien family:** tax, UCC / secured interest, judgment, mechanics, municipal or other statutory lien.
- **Filing type:** federal tax lien, mobile-home tax lien, state tax lien release, mechanic's lien release, municipal lien, chattel lien, judgment, foreclosure judgment, UCC financing statement, UCC continuation, UCC assignment, UCC amendment, UCC termination and their releases.
- **Release flag:** `is_release` is true for releases, terminations, discharges and partial releases, so you can separate new distress from payoffs.
- **Money:** `amount_usd` from the county consideration field, or from a dollar amount in the legal description when consideration is absent.
- **Recording detail:** recorded date and time, instrument date, document number, instrument number, book/volume/page, page count and county document group.
- **Property and legal detail:** subdivision, condominium, lot, block, township/section, legal description and any property address or parcel identifier the county publishes.
- **Traceability:** department, county, state, source page, search role, search term, run filters and observation timestamp.

Each record can carry these 57 fields. A field the source does not publish for a record comes back as `null`.

| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| `record_id` | string | Stable record key: department plus county document number |
| `document_number` | string | Recorded document number |
| `instrument_number` | string | Instrument number as published by the county |
| `doc_type` | string | County document type, for example LIEN-FEDERAL TAX or UCC FINANCIAL STMT |
| `doc_type_code` | string | County document type code, for example LFT, LNM, JUD, RFT or UFS |
| `doc_group` | string | County document group, for example RP or UCC |
| `department` | string | County search department: RP (Land Records) or UCC (UCC Filing) |
| `department_label` | string | Human-readable department label |
| `filing_type` | string | Normalized filing type, for example federal_tax_lien, mechanics_lien_release, judgment or ucc_initial |
| `filing_type_label` | string | Human-readable filing type label |
| `lien_category` | string | Normalized lien family: tax, ucc, judgment, mechanics, municipal or other |
| `lien_category_label` | string | Human-readable lien family label |
| `is_ucc` | boolean | True when the record comes from the UCC Filing department |
| `is_release` | boolean | True for releases, terminations, discharges and partial releases |
| `is_secured` | boolean | County is-secured flag as published; null when the county does not publish it |
| `recorded_date` | string | Recording date in YYYY-MM-DD format |
| `recorded_time` | string | Recording time as published, when present |
| `instrument_date` | string | Instrument or filing date in YYYY-MM-DD format, when published |
| `debtor_name` | string | Primary debtor, taxpayer, property owner or defendant name |
| `debtor_names` | string | All debtor-side names, joined with semicolons |
| `debtor_count` | integer | Number of debtor-side names |
| `secured_party_name` | string | Primary secured party, lender, taxing authority, judgment creditor or claimant name |
| `secured_party_names` | string | All secured-party-side names, joined with semicolons |
| `secured_party_count` | integer | Number of secured-party-side names |
| `grantor_name` | string | Primary grantor exactly as the county indexed it |
| `grantor_names` | string | All grantors, joined with semicolons; empty for UCC department records |
| `grantee_name` | string | Primary grantee exactly as the county indexed it |
| `grantee_names` | string | All grantees, joined with semicolons; empty for UCC department records |
| `party_direction` | string | How the county indexes the parties: grantee_debtor for Land Records liens or debtor_secured_party for UCC filings |
| `property_address` | string | Property address published on the filing; null when the county publishes only a legal description |
| `parcel_numbers` | string | Parcel or property identifiers, joined with semicolons; null when not published |
| `legal_description` | string | Legal description, joined with a pipe |
| `municipality` | string | Municipality or city from the property or legal record, when published |
| `subdivision` | string | Subdivision or condominium name |
| `lot` | string | Lot number or range |
| `block` | string | Block number |
| `township` | string | Township or section references, when published |
| `amount_usd` | string | Amount usd |
| `book` | string | Book value from the county book/volume/page reference |
| `volume` | string | Volume value from the county book/volume/page reference |
| `page` | string | Page value from the county book/volume/page reference |
| `book_volume_page` | string | Raw book/volume/page string |
| `page_count` | integer | Number of pages in the recorded document |
| `remarks` | string | County remarks, case numbers or notes, joined with a pipe |
| `marginal_references` | string | Marginal reference document numbers, joined with semicolons |
| `parties_truncated` | boolean | True when the county truncates a long party list |
| `source_doc_id` | string | County internal document identifier, useful for source reconciliation |
| `county` | string | County; always Lake |
| `state` | string | US state; always IL |
| `source` | string | Public source name |
| `source_page` | string | Public search page |
| `source_url` | string | Public source URL |
| `search_role` | string | How the record matched: party, document_number or new_filings |
| `search_term` | string | Party name or document number that matched this record |
| `search_terms` | string | Filters used for the run |
| `observed_at` | string | Timestamp when the record was observed |
| `error` | string | Error message when no records were returned or the run failed; error records are not charged |

### Input and filters

All inputs are optional.

| Field | Type | Required | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| `partyNames` | array | no | (none) | Names to search, up to 20. Partial names are supported, for example SMITH, GOODLEAP or INTERNAL REVENUE. Each name is searched separately and results are deduplicated. |
| `partyRole` | string | no | `"any"` | Match the name as the debtor side, the secured-party side, or either side. The actor knows which county field holds each role in each department. Values: `any`, `debtor`, `secured_party`. |
| `documentNumbers` | array | no | (none) | Optional recorded document numbers, up to 20. Use this to verify a known filing, for example 8203069. |
| `lienTypes` | array | no | (none) | Lien families to include. Leave empty for all. Allowed values: tax, ucc, judgment, mechanics, municipal, other. |
| `includeReleases` | boolean | no | `true` | Include releases, terminations, discharges and partial releases. Turn off to return only new lien, judgment and UCC filings. |
| `releasesOnly` | boolean | no | `false` | Return only releases, terminations, discharges and partial releases. Overrides the include-releases setting. |
| `dateFrom` | string | no | (none) | Earliest recorded date in YYYY-MM-DD format. Leave empty for the last 30 days when no search term is given, or the last 10 years when searching by name or document number. |
| `dateTo` | string | no | (none) | Latest recorded date in YYYY-MM-DD format. Leave empty for today. |
| `maxFilings` | integer | no | `25` | Maximum number of unique recorded lien or UCC filings to return and charge. Free Apify users receive up to 10 results per run. |

A working example to paste into the Input tab:

```json
{
  "maxFilings": 5,
  "dateFrom": "2026-10-01",
  "dateTo": "2026-10-31",
  "partyRole": "any",
  "includeReleases": true,
  "releasesOnly": false
}
```

### Use cases

- Search Chicago's north suburbs for mechanics liens and releases across land records and UCC departments from 1980 on.
- **MCA, equipment-finance and factoring teams:** find businesses with a fresh UCC financing statement and identify the incumbent lender from the secured party.
- **Commercial lenders and credit teams:** monitor new tax liens, judgments and UCC filings against a borrower or prospect list.
- **Tax-lien investors and property attorneys:** find federal, state, mobile-home and municipal tax liens and their releases.
- **Construction and supplier credit:** find mechanic's liens and releases by owner, contractor or project.

### Coverage and freshness

Data comes from the Lake County Recorder's public Land Records and UCC Filing departments for recorded dates from 1980 to today. The source is live; the latest recording observed was **2026-10-30** and the index certified date was **2026-10-28**.

In the 2025-10-01 through 2026-10-31 window the selected lien and UCC families returned **4,995** recordings:

- **Land Records:** 3,621 statutory-lien recordings, including 383 federal tax liens, 609 mobile-home tax liens, 464 city/village/county liens, 255 mechanic's liens, 698 judgments, 14 foreclosure judgments, 194 general liens, 49 tax-deferral liens, 10 chattel liens, 2 lottery/unemployment liens and 943 releases (federal, state, mobile-home, mechanic, judgment, deferral and general lien releases).
- **UCC Filing:** 1,374 recordings, including 788 financing statements, 165 continuations, 29 assignments, 18 amendments and 374 terminations.

Lake County publishes a legal description for many instruments, not a situs address. When the county does not publish an address or parcel, those fields are `null` rather than invented. Amounts are published only on some instruments; `amount_usd` is populated only when a value is present.

### Pricing

This actor uses pay-per-event pricing. These are the current Apify prices, read on 2026-11-06.

| Event | Price | When it is charged |
|---|---|---|
| `result` | $0.015 | Each record delivered to your dataset |
| `apify-actor-start` | $0.003 | When a run starts, once per GB of run memory with a minimum of one |

At the default 512 MB, a run that delivers 100 records costs $1.503.

- Apify asks for a maximum spend of at least $0.018 per run on this actor.
- Accounts on the free Apify plan receive up to 10 results per run.
- If nothing matches or the source fails, you get one row with an `error` field and no `result` charge. The start event still applies to the run.
- Set a maximum cost per run and the actor stops delivering results when it reaches that limit.

### Comparison with other Apify actors

No dedicated actor for this source on the Apify Store as of November 2026. We searched the public Store on 2026-11-06 with queries including "Lake County Illinois lien", "Lake County recorder" and "Lake County ucc", and we reviewed the listings for this source and data type. Broader actors exist: `shelvick/property-deed-records` searches deed and lien records from county recorder indexes. Their listings do not name this source, so we could not confirm that they cover it. Store listings change, so run the same search before you rely on this.

### Related LienIntel actors

Other public LienIntel actors for the same buyer:

- [Alaska Recorder UCC & Lien Filings: Debtors & Lenders](https://apify.com/lienintel/alaska-recorder-ucc-lien-filings): county recorded liens and UCC filings in Alaska
- [Allegan County MI UCC & Lien Records Search](https://apify.com/lienintel/allegan-county-mi-lien-filings): county recorded liens and UCC filings in Allegan County, Michigan
- [Allegheny County PA UCC Filings: Debtors & Secured Parties](https://apify.com/lienintel/allegheny-county-pa-ucc-filings): county recorded liens and UCC filings in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania
- [Arapahoe County CO Lien Filings: UCC, Tax & Mechanics](https://apify.com/lienintel/arapahoe-county-co-lien-filings): county recorded liens and UCC filings in Arapahoe County, Colorado

### FAQ

**Is this a consumer credit report?**

No. It is public-record research for business, lending, title and due-diligence workflows.

**Why is the debtor sometimes on the grantee side?**

Lake County indexes every statutory-lien family in Land Records with the lienholder, agency or claimant as grantor and the debtor or owner as grantee. The UCC Filing department instead publishes explicit debtor and secured-party fields. The actor maps each department to the correct direction and also returns the raw grantor and grantee lists.

**How fresh is the data?**

The index is live. A run sees instruments as soon as the Recorder indexes them, subject to normal county processing.

**Can I get only new filings, not releases?**

Yes. Set `includeReleases` to `false`, or use `releasesOnly` to invert it.

**Does it return the document image?**

No. You get the indexed data for each recording, along with the document number you need to order a copy from the recording office.

### Run it through the Apify API

Replace `<TOKEN>` with your Apify API token.

```bash
curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/lienintel~lake-county-il-lien-filings/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=<TOKEN>" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"maxFilings": 5, "dateFrom": "2026-10-01", "dateTo": "2026-10-31", "partyRole": "any", "includeReleases": true, "releasesOnly": false}'
```

With the Apify CLI:

```bash
apify call lienintel/lake-county-il-lien-filings --input '{"maxFilings": 5, "dateFrom": "2026-10-01", "dateTo": "2026-10-31", "partyRole": "any", "includeReleases": true, "releasesOnly": false}'
```

Every run writes to a dataset that you can export as JSON, CSV or Excel from the Storage tab or through the Apify API.

***

*LienIntel is an independent data provider and is not affiliated with any government office named on this page. Records are public and are provided for research and workflow automation. This is not a certified search and not a consumer report under the FCRA.*

# Actor input Schema

## `partyNames` (type: `array`):

Names to search, up to 20. Partial names are supported, for example SMITH, GOODLEAP or INTERNAL REVENUE. Each name is searched separately and results are deduplicated.

## `partyRole` (type: `string`):

Match the name as the debtor side, the secured-party side, or either side. The actor knows which county field holds each role in each department.

## `documentNumbers` (type: `array`):

Optional recorded document numbers, up to 20. Use this to verify a known filing, for example 8203069.

## `lienTypes` (type: `array`):

Lien families to include. Leave empty for all. Allowed values: tax, ucc, judgment, mechanics, municipal, other.

## `includeReleases` (type: `boolean`):

Include releases, terminations, discharges and partial releases. Turn off to return only new lien, judgment and UCC filings.

## `releasesOnly` (type: `boolean`):

Return only releases, terminations, discharges and partial releases. Overrides the include-releases setting.

## `dateFrom` (type: `string`):

Earliest recorded date in YYYY-MM-DD format. Leave empty for the last 30 days in browse mode, or the last 10 years when searching by name or document number.

## `dateTo` (type: `string`):

Latest recorded date in YYYY-MM-DD format. Leave empty for today.

## `maxFilings` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of unique recorded lien or UCC filings to return and charge. Free Apify users receive up to 10 results per run.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "partyRole": "any",
  "includeReleases": true,
  "releasesOnly": false,
  "maxFilings": 25
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

One row per recorded Lake County lien, judgment, UCC or release filing with debtor and secured-party names, lien family, filing type, release flag, dates, document numbers, amounts and legal descriptions.

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("lienintel/lake-county-il-lien-filings").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("lienintel/lake-county-il-lien-filings").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{}' |
apify call lienintel/lake-county-il-lien-filings --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,lienintel/lake-county-il-lien-filings"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/RxhAlH8SNuUXg0PmD/builds/iEraazFYbugSu49TM/openapi.json