Village of Taylor Springs

Montgomery County, Illinois

Last verified September 17, 2026

Village of Taylor Springs is a jurisdiction in Montgomery County, Illinois, which does not currently list an online permit database — contact the department directly by phone or email. Use the contact information below to reach the local building department, or the mailing address if the jurisdiction needs to be listed as a certificate holder on a contractor's insurance documentation.

Certificate Holder Mailing Address

Montgomery County Supervisor of Assessments
1 Courthouse Square, Room 201
Hillsboro, IL 62049

Use this address when the jurisdiction needs to be listed as a certificate holder on a contractor's insurance documentation.

Additional Notes

No official Village of Taylor Springs website was found. Montgomery County does not issue traditional 'building permits' — per its own official page, it issues 'Structural Improvement Permits' through the Supervisor of Assessments office, mainly for assessment/notice purposes, and the county states there is no zoning ordinance in its rural areas. Whether this office's process extends into incorporated Taylor Springs specifically was not explicitly confirmed on the official page; included here as the best-available official fallback per common small-Illinois-village practice.

What You Need Before Applying for a Permit

Most building departments ask for the same core package before they'll issue a permit: a completed application naming the property owner and contractor, the contractor's state license number and proof of insurance (general liability, and workers' comp if employees are on the job), a notice of commencement or equivalent recorded filing for larger jobs where the state requires one, and scaled plans or a site plan for anything beyond minor repairs. Roofing, fence, pool, and solar permits typically have their own simplified checklists — Village of Taylor Springs's department (above) can confirm exactly what applies to your project.

Why this matters for insurance: permit history is one of the first things an underwriter or adjuster checks. Unpermitted work — a finished basement, an added bedroom, a rebuilt roof — can complicate a claim or even void coverage for that portion of the loss, and it routinely surfaces during a home inspection. Pulling the right permit up front, and keeping the closed-permit record on file, protects both the property's value and its insurability at resale.

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