Illinois Professional License Search (IDFPR)

illinoisopendata/license-search

Searches the Illinois professional licensing register published by the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation (IDFPR): licence holders and businesses across nursing, real estate, architecture, cosmetology and about 60 other licence types. Give a search term (a name or business name, any part of it), optionally narrowed by licence type or status; returns up to 25 rows with licence number, status, issue and expiry dates, city and county and whether the holder was ever disciplined. Some rows are historical (deceased or lapsed holders). A search that matches nothing returns an empty list. Illinois Open Data data, ODbL, passed through unmodified and served by Eden Engine; not an official State of Illinois or IDFPR product.

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Price

$0.0026 per call

You pay the price shown. If a call turns out to cost more than its quote, you pay the actual price, capped at twice the quote. No monthly minimum. Top-ups start at $0.50.

Data source

Illinois Open Data Portal (IDFPR)

Credit IDFPR (Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation) via Illinois Open Data, data.illinois.gov. Published under the Open Data Commons Open Database License (ODbL), which requires attribution and share-alike for derived databases. Served by Eden Engine; not an official State of Illinois or IDFPR product.

Use it

Five steps: search, inspect, learn, run, settle. No per-tool setup; your agent reaches this tool through the meta-tools it already has.

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agent

// 1. search: find the tool
omnial_search({ query: "what you need" })

// 2. inspect: price and input schema
omnial_inspect({ tool: "illinoisopendata/license-search" })

// 3. learn: read the usage guide at runtime
omnial_learn({ tool: "illinoisopendata/license-search" })

// 4. run: price the exact call first, then run it
omnial_execute({ tool: "illinoisopendata/license-search", input: { /* see input_schema */ }, dry_run: true })
omnial_execute({ tool: "illinoisopendata/license-search", input: { /* ... */ } })

// 5. settle: the call is charged when it finishes, nothing to do

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Pricing

Every charge this tool can incur.

Charge	Price
Per call	$0.0026

Updated: Oct 21, 2026

Input and output schemas

Input schema

input_schema.json

{
  "type": "object",
  "required": [
    "q"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "q": {
      "type": "string",
      "pattern": "^[A-Za-z0-9 .,'&-]{2,60}$",
      "description": "Search term matched against every text field of the register, case insensitive, for example 'east point seminars' or a surname. 2 to 60 characters: letters, digits, spaces and . , ' & -."
    },
    "limit": {
      "type": "integer",
      "default": 10,
      "maximum": 25,
      "minimum": 1,
      "description": "How many rows to return, 1 to 25. Defaults to 10."
    },
    "license_type": {
      "type": "string",
      "pattern": "^[A-Za-z0-9 .,'&/()-]{2,40}$",
      "description": "Optional exact licence type, uppercase as the register writes it, for example ARCHITECT, NURSING BOARD, REAL ESTATE or COSMO. Use Illinois License Types for the full list."
    },
    "license_status": {
      "type": "string",
      "pattern": "^[A-Za-z0-9 .,'&/()-]{2,40}$",
      "description": "Optional exact licence status, uppercase, for example ACTIVE, INACTIVE, EXPIRED, CANCELLED or DECEASED."
    }
  },
  "additionalProperties": false
}

Output schema

output_schema.json

{
  "type": "object",
  "required": [
    "results"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "results": {
      "type": "array",
      "items": {
        "type": "object",
        "properties": {
          "zip": {
            "type": "string"
          },
          "city": {
            "type": "string"
          },
          "state": {
            "type": "string"
          },
          "county": {
            "type": "string"
          },
          "business": {
            "type": "string",
            "description": "Y for a business licence, N for an individual."
          },
          "last_name": {
            "type": "string"
          },
          "first_name": {
            "type": "string"
          },
          "description": {
            "type": "string",
            "description": "Licence description."
          },
          "license_type": {
            "type": "string",
            "description": "Licence category, for example ARCHITECT or NURSING BOARD."
          },
          "business_name": {
            "type": "string"
          },
          "effective_date": {
            "type": "string",
            "description": "MM/DD/YYYY."
          },
          "license_number": {
            "type": "string",
            "description": "Licence number; empty on some historical rows."
          },
          "license_status": {
            "type": "string",
            "description": "ACTIVE, INACTIVE, EXPIRED, CANCELLED, DECEASED and others."
          },
          "expiration_date": {
            "type": "string",
            "description": "MM/DD/YYYY."
          },
          "ever_disciplined": {
            "type": "string",
            "description": "Y or N."
          },
          "lastmodifieddate": {
            "type": "string",
            "description": "MM/DD/YYYY."
          },
          "original_issue_date": {
            "type": "string",
            "description": "MM/DD/YYYY."
          }
        },
        "additionalProperties": true
      }
    }
  },
  "description": "The matching register rows; an empty list when nothing matches.",
  "additionalProperties": true
}