Chicago regulator coverage

Look up the regulator records behind Chicago venues.

Name: Source: City of Chicago Department of Business Affairs and Consumer Protection, Current Liquor Licenses (nrmj-3kcf).
Creator: City of Chicago Department of Business Affairs and Consumer Protection, Current Liquor Licenses (nrmj-3kcf).
License: https://data.cityofchicago.org/terms-of-use

Venue Authority currently serves 54,273 source-scoped records from 2 admitted sources. The collection includes food inspection records, alcohol license records.

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54,273

Source-scoped records

Regulator sources

Leading localities shown

Aug 14, 2026, 21:43 UTC

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Current regulator sources

Counts are source-scoped. When two datasets cover the same physical location, Venue Authority does not present their combined count as a unique-business total. A refresh-due snapshot remains available while Venue Authority retries its source.

food inspection recordsRefresh due

47,563 records

City of Chicago Data Portal, Food Inspections (4ijn-s7e5).

Venue Authority reduces inspection rows by the regulator license identifier and normalizes facility fields.

Validated snapshot: Aug 14, 2026, 21:43 UTC
Source identifier: chicago-food-inspections-4ijn-s7e5

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alcohol license recordsRefresh due

6,710 records

City of Chicago Department of Business Affairs and Consumer Protection, Current Liquor Licenses (nrmj-3kcf).

Venue Authority selects issued liquor licences, normalizes premise fields, and reduces repeated transaction rows by license_number.

Validated snapshot: Aug 14, 2026, 21:42 UTC
Source identifier: chicago-current-liquor-licenses-nrmj-3kcf

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Where current records are concentrated

These are the leading locality labels published by the admitted sources. They describe record concentration, not a count of distinct legal businesses.

Chicago, IL

54,070 source-scoped records

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