Village of Panama
Bond County, Illinois
Last verified September 17, 2026
Village of Panama is a jurisdiction in Bond County, Illinois, with an online portal for searching and pulling active or historical building permits. 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.
Contact
- Phone
- 618-237-9737
- brad.criner@bondcountyil.gov
- Department Site
- Bond County Zoning Department (opens in a new tab)
Permit Search
Certificate Holder Mailing Address
Bond County Zoning Department206 W. Main
Greenville, IL 62246
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 Panama website could be found. Note a disambiguation trap: a domain called villageofpanama.net that surfaces in search results is actually Panama, NEBRASKA, not this Illinois village -- confirmed by fetching it directly (address/mayor were Nebraska-specific). Third-party directories (Yellow Pages, RiverBender) cite a Village Hall at 237 Cleveland Ave / PO Box 117, Panama, IL 62077, phone (217) 537-3022, and a Wednesday-morning Code Enforcement Officer, but none of this could be verified on an official government domain, so it is omitted from the confirmed fields (hedge only, per project convention). Bond County's own Zoning Department page does not explicitly limit its scope to unincorporated areas (unlike Woodford County's page, which does exclude incorporated villages), so the county office is presented here as the plausible permit-issuing authority for this very small village (pop. 337), but this has not been explicitly confirmed as applying to incorporated Panama specifically -- treat with some caution.
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 Panama'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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