Building permits in Rock Island, Illinois: what they show and who they help
Updated October 25, 2026.
The City of Rock Island issues building permits through its building department, for homes and businesses inside city limits on the Illinois side of the Quad Cities. Each permit is a public record of work someone has decided to pay for, which makes the permit list a lead source for contractors in that trade and the ones that follow it.
Where Rock Island's permit records come from
Rock Island publishes its permits on a public EnerGov self-service site, so new permits can be collected from the city's own system as they are issued.
For each permit, the public rows we show carry: trade, permit type, month, status, contractor.
What we hold for Rock Island
Coverage: Complete: every new permit since we started collecting; history from 2025-10-08.
1,388 building permits we can share, from October 2025 to October 2026.
See Rock Island building permits with masked sample rows, or Permit Leads for new permits by trade.
We offer a trade for a town only after checking that our sorting of that town's permits into it is accurate, so the trades listed above can change.