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    Building Code Scofflaw List

    Metadata Updated: October 4, 2025

    Chicago's Building Code Scofflaw Ordinance (Section 2-92-416 of the Municipal Code of Chicago) prohibits the owners of buildings that are identified as "priority buildings with serious and chronic code violations" from being awarded City contracts, receiving financial assistance from the City, or having certain applications accepted or processed by the City. Buildings on the list are also subject to follow-up inspections by the Department of Buildings at least every 12 months, and once removed from the list, continuing inspections until the building receives two consecutive inspections, at least six months apart, during which no serious violations are found. The owners of buildings included on the list are designated as "building code scofflaws."

    Pursuant to the ordinance, as amended in 2021, lists of buildings are published on September 1 and March 1 of each year and lists of owners associated with those buildings are published one month later.

    The structure of this dataset was modified on 9/1/2021 to be consistent with the amended ordinance.

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    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. Non-Federal: This dataset is covered by different Terms of Use than Data.gov. License: No license information was provided.

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    Dates

    Metadata Created Date November 10, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date October 4, 2025

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from Chicago JSON

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date November 10, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date October 4, 2025
    Publisher data.cityofchicago.org
    Maintainer
    Identifier https://data.cityofchicago.org/api/views/crg5-4zyp
    Data First Published 2022-03-03
    Data Last Modified 2025-10-01
    Category Buildings
    Public Access Level public
    Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
    Metadata Catalog ID https://data.cityofchicago.org/data.json
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Harvest Object Id 5ce3506f-eb6e-4a4b-8ccf-029306788fd2
    Harvest Source Id 7590e386-229e-453a-8e53-6f18e200e421
    Harvest Source Title Chicago JSON
    Homepage URL https://data.cityofchicago.org/d/crg5-4zyp
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 6092cf03dab978be5835238c87669608e4c11309d22e5fe0107d5fa0a9457293
    Source Schema Version 1.1

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