What Chicago kitchen and bath remodels cost, and how long permits take

Chicago Remodel Ledger tracks real permit data from the City of Chicago, and will add anonymized line-item costs from real projects. No modeled guesses.

190residential kitchen/bath renovation permits (last 12 months)

69 daysmedian from application to issue

$100,000median reported cost on those permits

Read this first: The figures come from 190 City of Chicago renovation/alteration permits issued 2025-10-16 to 2026-10-14, picked because the work description mentions a kitchen or bath and residential use. Reported cost is what the applicant wrote on the permit, which may not be what the job cost. These permits lean toward large or structural jobs: many small kitchen and bath updates use express permits or need none, so they are under-represented. Treat the numbers as context, not a quote.

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Stats last refreshed 2026-10-15.