Chicago feed · updated daily
Demolition permits ranked for architectural salvage potential. Doors, brick, timber, fixtures, and deconstruction jobs—pulled out of public records while there is still time to make a call.
Free board stays free. Daily Drop is $39/month; the first 10 subscribers receive a $19 first month, while slots remain.
2-story masonry residence
+ detached frame garage
The permit wire
WRECK AND REMOVE A 2 STORY MASONRY MULTI UNIT RESIDENCE AND A DETACHED FRAME GARAGE
WRECK AND REMOVE A 2 STORY MASONRY MULTI UNIT RESIDENCE AND A DETACHED FRAME GARAGE
WRECK AND REMOVE A 2 STORY MASONRY RESIDENCE AND A DETACHED FRAME GARAGE
WRECK AND REMOVE A 3 STORY FRAME MULTI UNIT RESIDENCE
WRECK AND REMOVE A 1 STORY MASONRY BUILDING WITH MEZZANINE (BUILDING A)
EMERGENCY WRECK AND REMOVE A 1 STORY MASONRY BUILDING (FORMER CHURCH)
No black box
Salvage Signal watches Chicago’s official building-permit feed, isolates demolition language, and scores the public clues that often correlate with recoverable material. Every score explains itself.
Inspect the city source ↗Scan newly issued permits and interior demolition scopes every day.
Extract structure, material, use, project size, timing, and public contact clues.
Surface the strongest opportunities first and show exactly why they moved up.
You confirm ownership, access, hazards, timing, and actual materials before acting.
Permits are public leads, not permission to enter a property or remove material. Contact the owner or contractor, follow site-safety rules, and verify conditions before quoting or visiting.
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The free Weekly Wire is a dated, source-linked briefing for people still deciding whether daily monitoring fits their work. It does not imply that any material is available.
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Straight answers
What buyers, contractors, reuse teams, search engines, and agents need to know before using a signal.
Salvage Signal is Chicago demolition-permit intelligence for architectural salvage buyers, deconstruction contractors, reuse organizations, and designers. It ranks public permit clues by likely reuse value and explains every score.
The leads come from the City of Chicago Building Permits dataset. Salvage Signal watches newly issued records, isolates demolition language, and turns the public fields into a faster prospecting brief.
The explainable heuristic weighs clues such as masonry, heavy timber, multi-story construction, institutional use, named fixtures, project size, and emergency timing. A high score is a lead to verify, not a site inspection or material guarantee.
No. A public permit is only a prospecting lead. Contact the owner or contractor, obtain permission, follow site-safety rules, and independently verify hazards, timing, and materials before visiting or acting.
It is designed for architectural salvage yards and buyers, deconstruction contractors, reuse nonprofits, material brokers, builders, and designers who need early notice of Chicago recovery opportunities.
The Daily Drop is $39 per month. The first 10 founding subscribers pay $19 for the first month, then $39 monthly until canceled. The public lead board remains free.
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