City of Loves Park
Winnebago County, Illinois
Last verified September 17, 2026
City of Loves Park is a jurisdiction in Winnebago 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
- (815) 654-5033
- juanterre@cityoflovespark.com
- Department Site
- Building Department (opens in a new tab)
Permit Search
Certificate Holder Mailing Address
City of Loves Park - Building Department100 Heart Boulevard
Loves Park, IL 61111
Use this address when the jurisdiction needs to be listed as a certificate holder on a contractor's insurance documentation.
Additional Notes
Confirmed via cityoflovespark.com/departments/building/: Building Official Juan Terre, phone (815) 654-5033, fax (815) 654-5004, hours 8am-5pm M-F. The city's own Forms & Permits page does not itself link an online portal, but the Citizenserve-hosted portal at the URL above displays 'Loves Park, IL' branding directly, confirming it is the city's actual live system (installationID 351) even though it wasn't linked from the page fetched. Note: the same phone number (815-654-5033) is also given by neighboring Machesney Park for its own building inspection requests, suggesting some shared/overlapping inspection staffing between the two Winnebago County jurisdictions - unconfirmed beyond this phone-number coincidence.
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 — City of Loves Park'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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