{"sample": true, "note": "Free, fixed EXAMPLE of what the paid routes return \u2014 for evaluating the data shape before spending anything. Unlike a synthetic mock these are the REAL values for a real parcel, and you can verify them yourself for $0: this PIN is one of our always-free example PINs, so GET /v1/dossier/09253060510000 returns this same record live, with no payment. The live answer is a SUPERSET of this example: it carries the full 5-year assessment history, every permit on file, and per-response provenance (as_of, source, cite); string values come verbatim from county records, typos and all.", "search_example": {"endpoint": "GET /v1/search/{q}  (FREE \u2014 always, no payment, no limit)", "query": "7645 W Howard St, Chicago, IL 60631", "normalized": "7645 W HOWARD ST", "match_quality": "exact", "matches": [{"pin": "09253060510000", "prop_address": "7645 W HOWARD ST", "prop_city": "CHICAGO", "prop_zip": "60631", "score": 1.0, "exact": true}]}, "dossier_example": {"endpoint": "GET /v1/dossier/{pin}  (FREE for your first 25 calls each day, then $0.03)", "pin": "09253060510000", "prop_address": "7645 W HOWARD ST", "prop_city": "CHICAGO", "prop_zip": "60631", "class": "203", "township_name": "Jefferson", "municipality": "CITY OF CHICAGO", "ward": "41", "nbhd_code": "71361", "police_district": "16", "census_tract_geoid": "17031090100", "school_elementary_district": "CPS ELEMENTARY - EBINGER", "school_secondary_district": "CPS SECONDARY - TAFT HS", "walk_score_cmap": 68.0, "airport_noise_dnl": 56.03, "lat": 42.0184457206, "lon": -87.818073995, "sales_history": [{"date": "2014-08-01", "price": 385000.0, "doc_no": "1423956016", "deed_type": "Warranty"}, {"date": "2010-01-01", "price": 250000.0, "doc_no": "1005757146", "deed_type": "Warranty"}], "permits": [{"issued": "2020-12-15", "type": "PERMIT - EASY PERMIT PROCESS", "cost": 24149.0, "desc": "SOLAR PANEL PERMIT. ERECT A PHOTOVOLTAIC ARRAY ON THE ROOF"}, {"issued": "2018-03-29", "type": "PERMIT - EXPRESS PERMIT PROGRAM", "cost": 450.0, "desc": "INSTALLATION OF ELECTRICAL TIMER SWITCH"}], "assessment_history": [{"year": 2026, "certified": null, "board": null, "mailed": null, "stage": "pending"}, {"year": 2025, "certified": 42001.0, "board": 42001.0, "mailed": 42001.0, "stage": "board"}, {"year": 2024, "certified": 42001.0, "board": 42001.0, "mailed": 42001.0, "stage": "board"}], "assessment_note": "Cook County ASSESSED values, not market values and not tax bills. 'certified' is the Assessor's certified total; 'board' is the Board of Review total; 'mailed' is the first-pass mailed total. For most residential classes the assessed value is roughly 10% of the Assessor's estimated market value. A null with stage='pending' means that tax year is not yet certified \u2014 it is not missing data. This API does not carry property-tax bill amounts."}, "endpoints": {"/v1/search": {"price": "$0.00"}, "/v1/parcel": {"price": "$0.01"}, "/v1/dossier": {"price": "$0.03"}, "/v1/comps": {"price": "$0.10"}}, "free_examples": ["https://api.ingest0r.com/v1/dossier/09253050270000", "https://api.ingest0r.com/v1/dossier/09253060510000", "https://api.ingest0r.com/v1/dossier/09253140190000"], "scope": "Cook County, Illinois (incl. City of Chicago and 100+ suburbs such as Evanston, Oak Park, Cicero and Skokie) ONLY \u2014 not nationwide. Property-keyed public records; no personal, owner, or occupant data.", "how_to_pay": "You probably do not need to. /v1/search and /v1/sample are always free, the three example PINs above are always free, and the first 25 calls per client per day to /v1/parcel, /v1/dossier and /v1/comps return REAL data with no payment and no wallet \u2014 the X-Free-Tier-Remaining response header tells you where you stand, and the allowance resets at 00:00 UTC. Only PAST that allowance do those three routes return HTTP 402 with machine-readable x402 terms: pay in USDC on Base or Solana and retry. No signup, no API key.", "terms": {"license": "Underlying records are Cook County / City of Chicago public open data. Responses may be stored, cached and redistributed by the caller; attribution to the Cook County Assessor/Recorder and City of Chicago open data is requested, not required.", "warranty": "Provided as-is from public records. No warranty of accuracy, completeness or fitness for a particular purpose. Not affiliated with or endorsed by any government body. Not an appraisal, title report, or legal advice.", "sla": "Best-effort, single region. No uptime guarantee. Liveness: GET /healthz. Data refreshed nightly; every answer carries as_of.", "privacy": "Property-keyed only. No owner, buyer, seller or occupant names are stored on any serving path or logged."}}