Chicago City Inspections

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Does anyone have experience dealing with Chicago city inspectors? I'm doing some repair-and-replace structural renovations (not moving walls or making any additions) on a three-flat on the North Side / Lakeview area and I'm not sure what to expect when it comes to having the city do inspections. Like a lot of Chicago houses its pretty old but its in good condition (except for the damage I need to have fixed).

The owners unit has a duplex up into the attic (however there is still an attic space above the duplex-up). I’m going to need to pull permits for some of the work I’m doing and a city inspector will likely go through my whole house. The duplex up is nice - the attic space has 7+ ft high ceilings in the bedrooms and hallway (there's a small part of the hallway that's about 6.5ft high) and each room has a window and ventilation. The duplex up has two forms of egress.

Anyone have any insight as to what I can expect when it comes to city inspections? Also I should note that a city inspector did walk through my entire house when I wasn't there - we temporary shored the house and he put a stop work order on it. However he worked it out with my contractor and eventually removed the stop work order and told us to keep working.