Every week we pull Chicago building violations, Cook County tax records and county ownership files, stack the distress signals on the same properties, and rank what is left. You get the owners and the mailing addresses. No dashboard to learn — a clean file, every Monday.
Public records · Refreshed every Monday · Cancel anytime · First list in your inbox the same day
Real rows from this week's list. The demo below shows the Building-pressure band; the full list carries every band.
List refreshed October 18, 2026 · rebuilt every Monday from the latest city and county records.
How it works
Chicago building violations, Cook County tax sales and delinquency, and the county ownership file — the raw feeds, straight from the source, every week.
One problem is noise. Violations plus an absentee owner plus unpaid taxes on the same property is pressure — and pressure sells. Every property gets a Pressure Score.
A clean spreadsheet lands in your inbox Monday morning: owners, mailing addresses, and every signal in plain language. New entries flagged. Work it your way.
Who it is for
Fresh motivated sellers every Monday, owners attached, so your mail and calls go out the same day the list lands.
Get the free sample →Distress you can verify — violation history, tax trouble and hold time on every row, scored so the worst houses surface first.
Get the free sample →Tired owners with long hold times and stacked problems — the off-market pipeline for your next rental, before it lists.
Get the free sample →One clean file the whole team can work: same columns, same scores, refreshed weekly, with a dictionary everyone understands.
Get the free sample →Coverage
Stacked properties by ZIP code across Chicago and Cook County. Darker means more distress stacked in that ZIP. Click any ZIP to filter the live demo below it.
| ZIP | Stacked | Tax-delinq. |
|---|---|---|
| 60619 | 637 | 66 |
| 60649 | 589 | 54 |
| 60620 | 559 | 60 |
| 60628 | 432 | 79 |
| 60617 | 419 | 77 |
| 60637 | 402 | 44 |
| 60623 | 387 | 50 |
| 60629 | 320 | 30 |
Stacked means several distress signals on the same property at once — code violations, unpaid taxes, an owner who lives elsewhere. One signal is noise. Stacked signals are an owner under pressure.
Live demo
From the list refreshed October 18, 2026. This demo shows the top of the Building-pressure band. The mailing column shows owner city and state only; full mailing addresses are included in the free sample and the full list.
| Score | Property | ZIP | Type | Viol. | Open | Owner | Owner mailing | Taxes owed | Years owned |
|---|
Scoring
Every property gets a Pressure Score from 0 to 100, built only from signals you can see in the file: how many code violations it has piled up and how recent they are, whether the property taxes are unpaid (and whether the owner has defaulted year after year), whether the owner lives somewhere else, and how long they have held the property. More pressure stacked on the same owner means a higher score.
The exact point values are our recipe; the inputs never are. Every signal behind a score is printed in the row itself, so you can re-sort the file your own way.
Scores appear in the demo table and in every file we deliver, in the same colors.
Inside the list
| Small Multi | 3,522 |
| Apartments | 2,319 |
| Single Family | 1,355 |
| Commercial | 1,184 |
| Condo | 298 |
| Residential Other | 285 |
| Vacant Land | 95 |
| Unknown | 40 |
| Other | 38 |
Free sample
The top 25 stacked properties with owners and mailing addresses, free. Tell us where to send it and which ZIPs you buy in, and we will tailor it.
Pricing
PressureList Chicago
Founding pricing — locked forever for the first 25 subscribers. Regular price $99/month after the founding cohort fills.
Cancel anytime. No contract, no setup fee.
Why PressureList
| PressureList | National platforms | DIY from county sites | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coverage | One metro, deep: Chicago + Cook County | Nationwide, depth varies by county | Whatever you can pull yourself |
| What you get | A finished file, ready to mail | A dashboard you build lists in | Raw records in five formats |
| Owners & mailing addresses | Attached to every row | Often a paid add-on | Hours of manual lookups |
| Freshness | Rebuilt every Monday, date printed on it | Update schedules vary | As fresh as your last free weekend |
| Price | $79/month founding | $99+/month plus add-ons | Free, plus your time |
Start with the free sample — the top 25, with owners and mailing addresses, tailored to your ZIPs.
Get the free sampleFAQ
Public records: City of Chicago open data (building violations), the Cook County Assessor (ownership and sales) and the Cook County Treasurer (tax sales and delinquency). We assemble, stack and score them — we do not sell anything you could not dig up yourself with enough weekends to spare.
Rebuilt every Monday from the latest records, and each file flags what is new since the week before. The refresh date is printed on this page and in every delivery.
A CSV file by email every Monday: property address, owner name and mailing address, violation and tax signals, sale history, years owned, absentee flag and Pressure Score — plus a plain-language data dictionary explaining every column.
Yes. The subscription is month to month with no contract and no cancellation fee. Keep every file you have already received.