$2.8MRenovationPartial occupancy approved
Interior alterations to 1st and 2nd floor retail space for new day care, exterior extension of private sidewalk, installation of protective bollards...
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Chicago Construction Cleaning Leads
In the last 12 months the City of Chicago issued building permits for at least 763 apartment and commercial projects over $500,000 that are still open, about $4.2 billion of work. Here are the biggest, the builders running the most of them, and the buildings with partial occupancy approved. Cleaning, window cleaning and pressure washing companies: these are the builders to get in front of.
Open big projects
763
permits issued since Oct 15, 2025
Work on the permits
$4.2 billion
reported cost, as filed
New buildings
191
at least 3,562 new apartments
Partial occupancy
8
approved by the City
City data as of Oct 15, 2026. Refreshed every Monday.
Partial occupancy approved
The City has approved temporary or partial occupancy on these projects (the 6 largest of 8 shown).
$2.5MRenovationPartial occupancy approved
Alterations to existing office space, suites 2600 and 2652
$2.3MRenovationPartial occupancy approved
Landlord interior renovations to office floors 9, 22, suite 2330 on the 23rd floor, and suite 2625 on the 26th floor
$2MRenovationPartial occupancy approved
Interior buildout of a new outpatient behavioral health office space in lower level of existing 4 story medical office building
$1.9MRenovationPartial occupancy approved
Interior alterations and renovations of existing restaurant tenant space at the street level and river level within existing 8-story building (11...
$770KRenovationPartial occupancy approved
Interior alterations in existing office building on the 27th floor, to exiting full floor office suite 2750, interior partitions, millwork, finishes,...
Builders with the most big jobs open
Counted from permits where the business is listed as general contractor.
- General contractorOpen jobsWork
- Skender Construction LLC22$293.6M
- Power Construction Company, LLC17$219.6M
- Executive Construction, Inc.17$42.2M
- JC Anderson Inc17$32.9M
- Bulley & Andrews, L.L.C.14$93.9M
- Redmond Construction Corp.14$74.1M
- Clune Construction Company, L.P.13$56.1M
- Bear Construction Company13$14M
- Leopardo Construction Inc11$56.3M
- Pintauro Construction Company LLC11$46M
Biggest open projects
$580MNew constructionInspections under way
Interior buildout of new 7-story casino, parking, and event center building and 34-story hotel tower
$190MNew construction · 464 homesInspections under way
Full building permit for floors lower level 2 through roof, including 6th floor exterior amentity deck and pool
$151.1MRenovationPermit just issued
Phase 3 of 3: interior alterations to existing 7-story office building to convert to a data center
$85MRenovationInspections under way
Interior alterations to floors b1, 1 and 3 thru 9 in an existing high-rise office building for google
$81.3MRenovationInspections under way
Renovation to existing lab/office building on floors 2, 4, 6, 7 and penthouse 1 for expansion of labs to include mechanical penthouse addition on...
$62MRenovationInspections under way
Interior demolition of existing levels 14 and 15 of the galter pavilion
$52MNew constructionInspections under way
Construct new 1 story addition to an existing 1 story warehouse building
$51.1MRenovationInspections under way
Phase 2 of 3: infrastructure upgrades. Convert 7 story office building to a data center
$50.1MRenovationInspections under way
Interior alterations to levels b2, b1, l1, and l2 for building shared amenity space
$50MRenovationInspections under way
Full building permit: mixed-use commercial 3 story building addition to united center and will include 266 off street parking spaces and 10 off...
$50MRenovation · 175 homesInspections under way
Interior and exterior alterations to existing 17 story office building to convert it to a mixed-use building with ground floor retail use, hotel use...
$46.8MNew construction · 110 homesInspections under way
New construction of a 6-story residential building (110 dwelling units), at-grade parking lot (134 auto spaces + 40 bike spaces) and associated site...
$44.9MRenovationInspections under way
Interior alterations to existing office floors 10 through 16 for buildout of golub capital office space
$44MNew construction · 199 homesInspections under way
New construction of a 12-story residential building (199 units) w/ no basement to include ground parking (42 auto parking spaces + 199 bike parking...
$39.5MRenovationInspections under way
Tenant build out in an existing warehouse for expansion of a food processing facility
$38MNew construction · 121 homesPermit just issued
Full building permit for 13-story building with 121 dwelling units and first floor garage.. sprinkler system under seperate permit
$36.9MNew construction · 78 homesPermit just issued
New construction 7 story, 79ft, 78 unit multi-family residential building
$36MRenovationInspections under way
Adaptive reuse of an existing 5 story commercial building to multi-family residential with a new 5 story addition
$35MRenovationInspections under way
Alteration to existing warehouse building to make strcuctural repairs, repair docks, install new dock doors, construct new gearge addition and repair...
$33MRenovationInspections under way
Initial tenant buildout on the 11th, 12th, and 13th floor of an existing office building for a business use non-hazardous laboratory space with...
$31.5MNew construction · 91 homesInspections under way
Caissons (vertical penetration) only for new 7 story 91-unit mixed use building
$30MRenovationInspections under way
Addition of a 2-story athletic facility to existing school building to build indoor competition and practice gymnasiums with associated locker rooms...
$30MNew constructionInspections under way
Phase 1c - cryoplant buildout for quantum computing facility
$29.9MNew construction · 73 homesInspections under way
New construction of a 6-story residential building (73 dwelling units) to include 40 bike spaces
$29MRenovationInspections under way
Initial buildout of 56,721 sf commerical office space on 19th, 20th, and 21st floors (3 contiguous floors)
No projects in this sample match. The weekly list covers every open project.
How to use this list
Start with the builders, not the buildings. A general contractor with several big jobs open hires subcontractors on each one, so getting on one builder's vendor list can put you in front of many projects.
Call the builder's main office and ask who buys cleaning for the project you name. Have the permit number and the address ready.
Send a one-page capability sheet the same day: what you clean, crew size, insurance, equipment and two references.
Watch the stage. Permit just issued is early, inspections under way means work is moving, and partial occupancy approved means the City has already cleared parts of the building for use.
Price the work before you call:
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Questions
Where does this data come from?
The City of Chicago Data Portal's Building Permits dataset, which the City updates daily, Monday to Saturday. We pull it every Monday and keep permits issued in the last 12 months for apartment buildings of 4 or more homes and commercial work with a reported cost of $500,000 or more that are still open and list a business as general contractor.
Why are some big projects missing?
Permits with no business listed as general contractor, owner-builder permits, houses and 2 to 3 flats, and permits marked complete, suspended or cancelled are left out. This free page shows a sample; the weekly list covers every project that passes the filter.
Is the reported cost the contract value?
No. It is the cost the applicant filed with the City for the permit. Treat it as a size signal, not a budget.
Do you contact the builders for me?
No. You make your own calls and emails. We never contact builders or anyone else on your behalf.
Does any builder here work with ProofNotFluff?
No. Builders appear because their names are on public City permits. None has endorsed or works with ProofNotFluff.
Will you cover other cities?
Chicago first. Other large cities publish permit data too, so the waitlist decides where we go next.