Chicago Roadway Construction Moratoriums and Permit Fees

Chicago's Department of Transportation maintains a list of roadway construction moratoriums to protect recently reconstructed or repaved streets. The dataset includes moratorium types, street addresses, and active date ranges for planning and fee assessment. It is published by data.cityofchicago.org and was last updated in April 2026.

Use Cases

• Identify streets under active 'Street Construction' or 'Street Resurfacing' moratoriums using the MORATORIUM TYPE and EXPIRATION DATE to calculate doubled permit fees for project budgeting.
• Plan excavation project timelines by filtering the START DATE and EXPIRATION DATE fields to avoid conflicts with 5 or 10-year protection periods.
• Geocode project sites by joining on STREET ADDRESS BEGIN, STREET NAME, and STREET ADDRESS END fields to map moratorium zones within the city.
• Analyze policy impact by tracking the temporal distribution of moratoriums using START DATE and MORATORIUM TYPE columns.

Strengths

• Explicitly defines three moratorium types with distinct rules: 10-year for reconstruction, 5-year for resurfacing, and special instructions for medians.
• Provides key temporal fields (START DATE, EXPIRATION DATE) for determining active status and planning windows.

Limitations

• Unknown row count and dataset size prevent assessment of coverage for all Chicago streets.
• Lacks geographic coordinates or spatial files, requiring geocoding from street address text fields for mapping.
• Sample data is unavailable, preventing verification of data format and completeness before download.

Provenance

Source

data.cityofchicago.org, sourced from the Chicago Department of Transportation.

Collection Method

Administratively recorded by the Department of Transportation as moratoriums are established.

Time Range

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Freshness

Updated to April 2026, indicating proactive maintenance of future moratorium schedules.

Geography

City of Chicago, Illinois, USA.