City of Granite City
Madison County, Illinois
Last verified September 17, 2026
City of Granite City is a jurisdiction in Madison 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.
Contact
- Phone
- (618) 452-6218
- Department Site
- Building and Zoning Department (opens in a new tab)
Permit Search
No online permit database on file — contact the department directly by phone or email.
Additional Notes
DISAMBIGUATION CONFIRMED: this is the real, sizeable Madison County, Illinois city (618 area code), sourced from its official site granitecity.illinois.gov (an illinois.gov municipal subdomain). Contact confirmed: Greg Koberna, Building & Zoning Administrator, phone (618) 452-6218; applicants are encouraged to call ahead of formal submission. No department email or complete street address was found in the official pages fetched during this research, so certificate-holder mailing address fields are left blank rather than guessed. (Granite City Hall is widely reported elsewhere as 2000 Edison Ave, Granite City, IL 62040, but this specific address was not independently verified on an official page during this session, so it is not entered as a confirmed field — flagged here only as an unverified, commonly-cited lead.)
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 Granite City'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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