# Municipal Notices – Buffalo & Chicago

> Municipal Notices – Buffalo & Chicago is a paid API for AI agents from well-015-municipal-notices.rainmaker-wells.workers.dev, paid per call via x402, $0.005/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-22).

Retrieves recent public municipal notices (planning board agendas, zoning board agendas, tax foreclosure notices, rezoning actions) for Buffalo NY or Chicago IL, filtered by date, keyword, or notice type.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://well-015-municipal-notices.rainmaker-wells.workers.dev/api/municipal-notices?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.005/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-22
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/municipal-notices-buffalo-chicago-b6e71233
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_ZgKUcbcN37zzKyp7THVPG

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability municipal-notices-buffalo-chicago-b6e71233 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Can you pull recent municipal notices from Buffalo — specifically Planning Board and ZBA agendas — since January 1, 2025, and filter for anything mentioning 'Elmwood'?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need structured, ready-to-consume municipal notice data for Buffalo (Erie County) or Chicago (Cook County) without scraping raw government websites. It is ideal for agents that monitor zoning changes, track tax foreclosure auctions, or need planning board agendas on a recurring basis. Prefer this over general web search when you want pre-cleaned items with source links and the ability to filter by date, keyword, and notice type programmatically.

## Known failure modes

- Missing required 'area' field returns a validation error
- Invalid area value (not 'buffalo' or 'chicago') returns an error
- Payment of $0.005 USDC not included or rejected causes 402 response
- No matching notices for the given filters returns an empty list
- Limit out of range (below 1 or above 50) may return a validation error
- Cached public records may lag behind very recent postings

## How this service works

Recent public municipal notices as clean items with source links ($0.005 USDC). area: buffalo (Buffalo Planning Board/ZBA agendas + Erie County tax-foreclosure auction docs) or chicago (City Council zoning reclassifications). Optional since (YYYY-MM-DD), keyword, kinds, limit. Cached public records; facts only, no advice; as is, no guarantee, nothing stored. Provided as is, with no warranty or guarantee of accuracy or fitness. Nothing is stored.

## Output

A list of clean municipal notice items, each containing a title, date, notice kind (e.g. rezoning, planning_board_agenda, zoning_board_agenda, tax_foreclosure_notice), a brief description or body text, and a source link pointing to the original public record. Results are filtered by the requested area, optional date cutoff, keyword, and notice type.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "required": [
  "area"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "area": {
   "type": "string",
   "description": "buffalo (Erie County NY) or chicago (Cook County IL)."
  },
  "kinds": {
   "type": "array",
   "description": "Optional subset: rezoning, planning_board_agenda, zoning_board_agenda, tax_foreclosure_notice."
  },
  "limit": {
   "type": "number",
   "description": "Max items, 1-50 (default 25)."
  },
  "since": {
   "type": "string",
   "description": "Optional YYYY-MM-DD; only items on/after this date."
  },
  "keyword": {
   "type": "string",
   "description": "Optional case-insensitive filter on title/body."
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "additionalProperties": true
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/municipal-notices-buffalo-chicago-b6e71233/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
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