New License Wire

Every new business license issued in Chicago, in your inbox each morning.

107 new licenses last week. Each one is a business in setup mode: signing a lease, buying equipment, and shopping for insurance. Be the first broker they hear from.

107new licenses in Chicago last week
18license categories covered
100%include the owner's name

What you get

One email each morning with every license the city issued the day before. No scraping, no estimates: this is the city's own public business-license record, pulled daily.

BusinessLicenseAddressIssuedOwner
JK Food & Tobacco Inc.
DBA: JK Food & Tobacco
Tobacco 1544 W 63rd St
Chicago, IL 60636
Sep 28, 2026 Mohammed Khan
Arianna Barone Beauty LLC Limited Business License 633 W North Ave
Chicago, IL 60610
Sep 28, 2026 Arianna Barone
1st Impression Painting & Remodeling, Inc. Regulated Business License 10800 Fletcher Ave
Melrose Park, IL 60164
Sep 28, 2026 Juan Carlos Gonzalez
Real licenses issued in Chicago, Sep 28, 2026. Source: City of Chicago Business Licenses, public record.

Who it is for

Commercial insurance brokers and agents who write small-business policies. A newly licensed business is about to do three things: sign a lease, buy equipment, and buy insurance. Most of them have no broker yet.

The math is simple. One converted restaurant policy pays $3,000 to $8,000 a year in premium. That covers years of this subscription. You need one win a year for this to pay for itself many times over.

Catch them while they are in setup mode, not after they have already picked a broker.

Pricing

Coming soon
Multi-metro
$199/month
  • Everything in Chicago, plus:
  • Every metro we add, same inbox
  • One price, no per-seat fees

In progress: Philadelphia, Washington DC, Los Angeles, San Diego, Seattle, San Francisco

Free sample

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Questions

Where does the data come from?

Public city records. Chicago's feed comes from the city's official Business Licenses dataset, published by the city itself. We pull it every day. Nothing is scraped from private sites and nothing is estimated.

How fresh are the leads?

Most licenses appear in your inbox within days of issuance. A few post late, and a few businesses open before their license posts. This is a feed for catching businesses in setup mode, in their first weeks, not a guarantee of reaching anyone before they open.

Why license data instead of a purchased list?

Purchased lists are resold to every broker in town, which is why new businesses stop answering. A license is the official record of a business forming. It is the earliest reliable signal that a business exists, and almost nobody is acting on it yet.

What exactly arrives each morning?

One email per new license: business name, DBA, address, license category, issue date, application date, and owner name. Filter the feed to the license categories you write, and export any day as CSV.

Can I cancel?

Anytime. Month to month, no contract, no cancellation fee.