Just call your county building department and they should help you out. 

I wanted to double check as I am an Architect in IL and have personally dealt with the Highland Park Zoning Department here in IL and would have been able to provide you with some insight...

I e-mailed their legal department.

PermittingLocal building departments have different rules and procedures for permitting and some take a notoriously long-time to get permits approved which could add several weeks to your schedule.  

Go online to your city planning department and look through project submittals.

I'm trying to perform my due diligence so maybe I call the health department to see what's been installed in the area recently?

The government is making way too much money sucking up taxation, much of it voted in, and paying out almost none of it in terms of services or help for homelessness.Critics have called it the "Homeless-Industrial Complex", paraphrasing Eisenhower's take on the "military-industrial complex".I saw an interview of one bureaucrat, forgot the name, where he boasted how he was able to grow his department from a handful of civil servants to a small army.

Who does what, single point of contact, team or department? 

He has sent nonviolent threatening texts, threats to call building department.

Either we have an amazing number if mentally ill people or the system is rampant with fraud.Today, the Transportation Department admitted it is primarily fraud and they're putting a stop to it.