New Business License Feed - Fresh Openings by City

What it does

It returns every business, food, liquor and trade license newly issued in Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, Seattle and New Orleans, straight from each city's official open data, filtered to the trades you sell to. Scheduled weekly it is a lead feed: each run returns only the openings you have not already been sent. Future-dated licenses and each city's own date format are handled, so the feed is genuinely new businesses, not the same pre-dated rows every run.

📦 What data you get

Every run returns these fields per record, exportable as CSV, JSON or Excel.

✓Business name & legal name

✓License type & business activity

✓Issue date (normalised YYYY-MM-DD)

✓Street address, city, state & postal code

✓Phone (Seattle, New Orleans, New York)

✓License number

✓NAICS code

✓Source city & register URL

📊 Sample output from a real run

5 records from a real New Business License Feed - Fresh Openings by City run, captured 2026-09-20. The table shows 6 of the 23 fields each record has; that run returned 791 records.

Business	License type	Activity	Issued	Expires	City
PICCADILLY MARKET AND PICCADILLY I, LLC	Special Event Liquor	Special Event Beer, Wine & Spirits	2026-09-18	2026-10-05	Chicago, IL
CHICAGO EVENT MANAGEMENT	Pop-Up Retail User	Organizer of Event with Retail Vendors (1-5 Day Show)	2026-09-18	2026-10-10	Chicago, IL
PREMIER CATERING & EVENTS LLC	Special Event Liquor	Special Event Beer & Wine	2026-09-18	2026-10-17	Chicago, IL
EMPTY BOTTLE INC.	Pop-Up Retail User	Organizer of Event with Retail Vendors (1-5 Day Show)	2026-09-18	2026-09-27	Chicago, IL
TREAD LIGHTLY TIRES, INC.	Motor Vehicle Services License	Motor Vehicle Repair - No Engine Work/No Body Work	2026-09-18	2028-10-15	Chicago, IL

Show one full record as JSON

{
  "sourceCity": "Chicago, IL",
  "sourceCityId": "chicago",
  "sourceState": "IL",
  "sourceUrl": "https://data.cityofchicago.org/d/r5kz-chrr",
  "businessName": "PICCADILLY MARKET AND PICCADILLY I, LLC",
  "legalName": "COMMONWEALTH VENTURES, LLC",
  "licenseType": "Special Event Liquor",
  "businessActivity": "Special Event Beer, Wine & Spirits",
  "licenseNumber": "3100578",
  "licenseId": "3100578-20260918",
  "issueDate": "2026-09-18",
  "expirationDate": "2026-10-05",
  "applicationType": "ISSUE",
  "address": "4749 N ROCKWELL ST",
  "city": "CHICAGO",
  "state": "IL",
  "postalCode": "60625",
  "ward": "40",
  "latitude": "41.9681542208",
  "longitude": "-87.6936381263",
  "_key": "CHICAGO:3100578-20260918",
  "_firstSeenAt": "2026-09-20",
  "_isFirstRun": true
}

Download this sample (JSON) · Prices and listings change daily, so your run returns current data.

🎯 Who uses it

Local B2B sales teams

Reach a restaurant, salon or contractor the week it gets its license, when it still needs a POS, insurance, signage or payroll.

Agencies & SDRs

Feed a weekly call sheet of new openings in your trade straight into your CRM.

Market researchers

Measure new-business formation by city, trade and NAICS code from official registers.

🚀 How to run it

Create a free Apify account
Click "Run this actor on Apify" above and sign up - you get $5 of credit instantly, no credit card required.
Enter your input
Paste the target URL or search terms into the actor's input form in the Apify console.
Set a result limit and click Run
The limit controls your cost. Pagination, rotating proxies and anti-bot handling all happen in the cloud.
Export or automate
Download JSON, CSV or Excel, or connect a webhook, schedule or the API to push results into your own workflow.

💵 What it costs

$0.002

per new license record

New Apify accounts start with $5 of free credit and no credit card, so you can test the output before spending anything. There is no monthly minimum - you pay only for what a run produces.

❓ Questions about New Business License Feed - Fresh Openings by City

Which cities does it cover?

Chicago, Los Angeles, New York City, Seattle and New Orleans, all from official municipal open data. No API key, account or proxy is needed.

Can I get only new restaurants or bars?

Yes. Put words like restaurant, food or liquor in keywords and the feed is filtered to those license types, categories or NAICS descriptions.

Will I get the same business twice?

No, while onlyNewSinceLastRun is on and the watchlist name stays the same. Licenses are remembered by city and license id.

Does it include phone numbers?

Seattle, New Orleans and New York publish a phone number on many records. Chicago and Los Angeles do not, so those rows carry name and address only.

What does it cost?

$0.002 per new license returned and $0.002 per Slack, Discord, Telegram or webhook digest, so 1,000 new licenses cost about $2.

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