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Companies & businessImported 2026-10-25Public records, city open-data terms

US business license data

Every active business license published by Chicago, New York City, San Francisco and Los Angeles, on one schema: business and trade name, license category, area, address, ZIP and the dates it was issued and expires. Pick a city, a category and an issue date, and have this week's new businesses in your spreadsheet in a minute, or pull them straight into your code or your AI agent. Business-level only: no individual licensees, no phone numbers.

New business licenses by US city, as a CSV →
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823,837 active business licenses imported 2026-10-25

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Source city Chicago
Issued since (YYYY-MM-DD) 2026-08-01
new-business-licenses.csv
6 example rows from 6,937 matching records
Business nameLicense categoryAreaZIPIssued onSource city
Food For Thought Cafe at the Adler, Ltd.Retail Food EstablishmentNear South Side, Chicago606052026-09-16Chicago
Food For Thought Cafe at the Adler, Ltd.Consumption on Premises - Incidental ActivityNear South Side, Chicago606052026-09-16Chicago
COLES APPLIANCES & FURNITURELimited Business LicenseNorth Center, Chicago606182026-10-16Chicago
MUTUAL SALES CORPORATIONLimited Business LicenseNorth Center, Chicago606182026-10-16Chicago
FLOW PRODUCTS, INC.Limited Business LicenseNorth Center, Chicago606182026-10-16Chicago
VENETIAN MONUMENT CO INCLimited Business LicenseWest Town, Chicago606122026-08-18Chicago
The table shows 6 selected columns. The free sample includes all 18 public columns for up to 25 matching rows. Blank source values stay blank in the CSV. Sources: Chicago, NYC, San Francisco and Los Angeles open-data portals, public records. Preview 25 rows free; buy this filtered export or use Pro for every matching row.

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cURLJavaScriptPythonMCP (Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor)
# Business licenses issued in Chicago since 1 August 2026, as CSV
curl "https://datascoop.io/v1/datasets/us-business-licenses/query?\
  source=Chicago&issuedSince=2026-08-01&format=csv" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer ds_your_key"
// # Business licenses issued in Chicago since 1 August 2026, as CSV
const res = await fetch("https://datascoop.io/v1/datasets/us-business-licenses/query?source=Chicago&issuedSince=2026-08-01", {
  headers: { Authorization: "Bearer ds_your_key" }
});
const { rows, total, attribution } = await res.json();
# # Business licenses issued in Chicago since 1 August 2026, as CSV
import requests
r = requests.get("https://datascoop.io/v1/datasets/us-business-licenses/query",
                 params={"source":"Chicago","issuedSince":"2026-08-01"},
                 headers={"Authorization": "Bearer ds_your_key"})
rows = r.json()["rows"]
# Claude Code (one line; other clients on /agents)
claude mcp add --transport http datascoop https://datascoop.io/mcp \
  --header "Authorization: Bearer ds_your_key"

# Your agent then calls
query_dataset({ dataset: "us-business-licenses", filters: {"source":"Chicago","issuedSince":"2026-08-01"} })

Fields in the CSV

Organisational fields only. No personal contact lists.

business nameDBA / trade namelicense categoryNAICSlicense numberstatusissued onstarted onexpires onareaaddresscityZIPlatitudelongitude
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Source & licence

City of Chicago Data Portal (Business Licenses, current active), NYC Open Data (DCWP Issued Licenses, business licenses only), DataSF (Registered Business Locations, open locations) and City of Los Angeles Open Data (Listing of Active Businesses), each under its open-data terms. Business-level data only: individual licensees and phone numbers are never included. DataScoop is independent and not affiliated with or endorsed by any of these cities. How we build and refresh this dataset →

Area statistics and filtered lists

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Manhattan, New York CityLoop, ChicagoFinancial District/South Beach, San FranciscoCouncil District 4, Los AngelesCouncil District 5, Los AngelesQueens, New York CityMission, San FranciscoNear North Side, ChicagoAll 129 areas →

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