Free public record lookups, and guides to the official ones

Property · Cook County. Live now: your address matched to its PIN, assessed values for 2023–2026, a case-strength estimate for houses and condo units with the appeal outcomes measured at each level, and your township’s appeal dates where they have been checked. Not yet rated: parcels with more than one building, and condo buildings without enough recent sales. Leads to the Tax Appeal Evidence Packet.

Property · Cook County. Whether your township’s Assessor or Board of Review appeal window is open, when it closes and how many days are left, with the date each window was last compared against a captured copy of the office’s own calendar. All 38 townships are listed; 26 have verified dates and the other 12 say so rather than guess. Leads to the Tax Appeal Evidence Packet while a window is open.

Property · Cook County. How much assessments moved around your home at the latest reassessment: your parcel’s own change, the median and the middle-half range for its assessor neighborhood and its township, and where your change sits in that spread. A change in line with the neighborhood is normally a weak appeal argument, and the page says so rather than steering you into a filing.

Property · City of Chicago. Permits on record and those not recorded as complete, violations and those listed as open, for homes, flats and condo units. Leads to Permit History & Discrepancy.

Hiring & Education · California. Three rules worked out for your own job and contract price: whether a license classification covers the job (B&P Code §7057), the legal maximum down payment (§7159.5), and whether the job needs a licensed contractor at all (§7048). Each answer links the official statute text. The license status itself is CSLB’s, and its free Instant License Check is more current than any copy. No paid report attached.

Health & Care · All US states. Any of the 14,690 Medicare-certified nursing homes: the four CMS star ratings with CMS’s own footnote where it declines to rate, beds, ownership type, nurse hours and staff turnover against that state’s median (we compute the median from the published figures), health citations counted by the harm level inspectors recorded, fire-safety citations, fines and payment denials with totals, and the date of the last standard survey. Up to three homes side by side. Leads to the Nursing Home Record.

Health & Care · All US states. From one home, every owner CMS publishes for it with the role and percentage, then every other home whose filing names that same owner — each with its rating, citation counts and fines. Searchable by owner name. Matched on the owner name exactly as CMS writes it, and the page says so: a differently spelled filing will not appear, and no corporate link beyond the name is implied.

Health & Care · All US states. What drug and device companies reported paying a clinician in 2024–2025 under the Sunshine Act: totals by year, the companies that reported them, what the payments were for, the products named, and the median for the same specialty in the same state. Nothing is ranked or scored. Leads to the Surgeon Record.

Property · Cook County. EPA-regulated facilities within half a mile of a parcel, with the EPA’s compliance status and a link to each facility’s EPA report. Public water system violations aren’t included yet. No paid report attached.

Cook County township appeal outcomes, who wins an appeal, and nursing home inspection records by state — free CSVs, no sign-up, each with a machine-readable record of the publisher, the load date and the exact query behind every column. Reuse them with the attribution line printed beside each file.

Illinois daycare licensing, USDA animal welfare inspections, public school districts and Illinois unclaimed property: who runs each lookup, what it covers and what it doesn’t. Links checked 14 Sep 2026.

From the Assessment Check and the deadline checker. Adds the comparable homes and recent sales as a filing-ready exhibit, your parcel’s own appeal history, your township’s window and next step, and an appeal statement to paste into the form.

From the Permit Lookup. Adds the listing’s own claims — beds, baths, units, basement, attic, addition — checked against those permits and the Assessor’s record, each marked Consistent, Check or Investigate, plus the full record rather than the 10 newest lines.

From either nursing home tool. Adds the full text of every citation with its scope and severity, the penalty table fine by fine, repeat problems across separate inspections, and a printable side-by-side document for up to three homes.

No free tool: the well, soil and flood records are queried at your exact coordinates when you order.

From the doctor payments lookup, which gives you the industry-payment records in full for free. Adds the clinician’s Medicare procedure volumes beside the middle half of the same specialty in the same state, and the state license, public discipline and board certification read on the boards’ own sites for your order and dated.

No free tool and no price shown: reserve balances and special assessments appear only in your association’s own documents, which a person here reads, so it is quoted per building.

Taken off sale. Every field in it was CSLB’s own record, published free and kept more current than any copy. The per-job rules CSLB’s lookup does not answer are free in the contractor checks above.