Roofing leads in Chicago, from public record.
Chicago Department of Buildings published 6,358 permits in the last 90 days, and 944 of them mention work this trade sells into. A storm-damaged or failing roof with a permit already filed, or a solar permit on a roof old enough to need replacing first.
Counted with a single aggregate query against Chicago Department of Buildings’s own permit descriptions, dataset ydr8-5enu, when this page was last rebuilt. It is the pool, not the feed: scoring and per-rule exclusions cut it down from here, and what reaches a rep is the part that clears 65.
4 filings worth a call.
These rules run against the words an applicant in Chicago wrote on the form, not against the category the city filed it under. That distinction matters: Chicago Department of Buildings groups a large share of work under "Permit – Express Permit Program", which tells you nothing about the trade it feeds.
Storm or fire repair
Insurance-funded and urgent. The shortest sales cycle in the trade.
Roof replacement
Direct roofing permit, competitive, but the homeowner has committed budget.
Solar on an ageing roof
Solar on a roof that has not been replaced means a tear-off and re-mount within a decade. Reaching the owner before the array goes up saves them that twice.
New construction roofing
Sold to the builder rather than the owner, but a much larger single order.
How do I find roofing leads in Chicago?
Read Chicago Department of Buildings's permit feed daily and filter for the filings that predict your work. A storm-damaged or failing roof with a permit already filed, or a solar permit on a roof old enough to need replacing first. EarlyIntent does this automatically and scores each one.
Which Chicago permits matter for roofing?
Roof replacement, Solar on an ageing roof, Storm or fire repair, New construction roofing. Filings matching none of these are never shown, which is what keeps the feed worth reading.
How fresh is it?
Chicago publishes daily and EarlyIntent reads it daily. The newest record in Chicago Department of Buildings's dataset was dated 2026-09-08 at the last check, 1 days old. A feed with nothing newer than 21 days is pulled from the product rather than served.
How many roofing filings does Chicago produce?
944 in the last 90 days, roughly 73 a week, which is 15% of everything Chicago Department of Buildings filed in the window. That is the pool before scoring: the feed is the part of it that clears 65.
What does a roofing territory in Chicago cost?
A territory is one trade in one geography, and Chicago ZIPs are sold individually. Starter carries three, Pro ten and exclusive, Scale forty. Reading the feed is unmetered; only owner-contact lookups draw down credits, because those are the only part that costs money per record.
Are these leads exclusive?
On Pro and above, yes, no other paying customer receives roofing leads for the same ZIP. It is enforced by a database constraint, so two people cannot be sold the same territory.