What a remodeling website in Chicago has to show: the license rules that apply, the counties you can serve, and a free audit of the site you have now.
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Businesses: residential remodelers with paid staff in the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN metro. Census County Business Patterns, 2023. Counties: Census metro and county estimates, 2024.
License
What Chicago asks of a remodeling business, and where your website comes in.
Checked 2026-10-05 at each source. Not legal advice: rules change, so check with the board before you rely on one.
City · City of Chicago Department of Buildings
Remodeling with a permit inside the city runs under a City of Chicago general contractor license, with home repair consumer rules on residential jobs.
“A City of Chicago general contractor license is required to perform most types of building construction, alteration, repair, and demolition work within the City of Chicago.”
On your website
Put the number in the footer of every page and beside every quote form, under the business name it is issued to. No rule we found asks for it on an ad here. It is still the first thing a careful customer checks.
Service area
The Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN metro: 13 counties in 2 states.
Illinois law holds across the state; City of Chicago licenses cover work inside the city. The metro also reaches four Indiana counties, where neither applies.
Census metro and county estimates, 2024Census County Business Patterns, 2023, by county
Residential remodelers with paid staff, by county, 2023.
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