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    Performance Metrics - Business Affairs & Consumer Protection - Business Licenses

    Metadata Updated: September 20, 2025

    Business licenses and building permits are required to operate a business in Chicago or to ensure that a building construction project conforms to the minimum standards of the Chicago Building Code. Currently the performance target for processing most business license types is approximately 15 days.

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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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    Metadata Created Date November 10, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date September 20, 2025

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from Chicago JSON

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    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date November 10, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date September 20, 2025
    Publisher data.cityofchicago.org
    Maintainer
    Identifier https://data.cityofchicago.org/api/views/emvs-38e6
    Data First Published 2025-09-15
    Data Last Modified 2025-09-15
    Category Administration & Finance
    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 f5e6c14d-e2e3-46b1-928c-b9b80fe1872b
    Harvest Source Id 7590e386-229e-453a-8e53-6f18e200e421
    Harvest Source Title Chicago JSON
    Homepage URL https://data.cityofchicago.org/d/emvs-38e6
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 660040232b2ec610d60b1be415aa132a26a6047af38306a637ac360fefa4b422
    Source Schema Version 1.1

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