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City source retrieved November 6, 2026 · scan evaluated November 9, 2026 · frequency change

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12-month frequency comparison

October 2024–September 2025
214
October 2025–September 2026
428
Change in monthly mean
+17.83

The two windows each contain 12 complete covered months. The magnitude of the change is 2-fold. These are published requests, not a population-adjusted rate. Fixed windows do not establish a breakpoint, remove all seasonal effects or prove a renewal explanation.

Saved observations and fitted phases

No clear change in celeration under this rule. This does not mean counts were constant.

Fixed six-log-cycle frame · 120 calendar months · factors per six months. Raw zeros stay zero; confirmed zeros become one only for log-space fitting and diagnostics. Missing coverage remains unavailable.

Monthly graffiti removal requests on a standard celeration chartCity of Chicago published records. Fixed six-decade count scale, 120 calendar months, celeration per 6 months. Zero markers are unconnected below the plot. Exact counts and coverage are available in the data table. Analyze: suggested. No clear change in celeration under this rule. This does not mean counts were constant. See the phase results table for dates, factors and uncertainty.1510501005001,0005,00010,00050,000100,000500,0001,000,000Requests per monthsuggested phase 1: 2019-01–2026-09Mar 2019: 10Apr 2019: 9May 2019: 12Jun 2019: 11Jul 2019: 6Aug 2019: 8Sep 2019: 9Oct 2019: 7Nov 2019: 9Dec 2019: 6Jan 2020: 3Feb 2020: 5Mar 2020: 8Apr 2020: 10May 2020: 10Jun 2020: 11Jul 2020: 27Aug 2020: 10Sep 2020: 9Oct 2020: 3Nov 2020: 6Dec 2020: 37Jan 2021: 4Feb 2021: 6Mar 2021: 21Apr 2021: 5May 2021: 9Jun 2021: 8Jul 2021: 13Aug 2021: 14Sep 2021: 3Oct 2021: 8Nov 2021: 14Dec 2021: 13Jan 2022: 24Feb 2022: 11Mar 2022: 12Apr 2022: 10May 2022: 8Jun 2022: 17Jul 2022: 10Aug 2022: 11Sep 2022: 10Oct 2022: 9Nov 2022: 5Dec 2022: 5Jan 2023: 15Feb 2023: 5Mar 2023: 4Apr 2023: 16May 2023: 7Jun 2023: 17Jul 2023: 17Aug 2023: 11Sep 2023: 8Oct 2023: 15Nov 2023: 6Dec 2023: 12Jan 2024: 2Feb 2024: 4Mar 2024: 9Apr 2024: 14May 2024: 16Jun 2024: 5Jul 2024: 8Aug 2024: 12Sep 2024: 15Oct 2024: 21Nov 2024: 7Dec 2024: 23Jan 2025: 10Feb 2025: 24Mar 2025: 22Apr 2025: 8May 2025: 16Jun 2025: 24Jul 2025: 15Aug 2025: 25Sep 2025: 19Oct 2025: 37Nov 2025: 23Dec 2025: 21Jan 2026: 46Feb 2026: 30Mar 2026: 64Apr 2026: 59May 2026: 33Jun 2026: 15Jul 2026: 32Aug 2026: 36Sep 2026: 32ZeroUnknownJan 2019: zero requests; not connectedFeb 2019: zero requests; not connected?Oct 2016: missing?Nov 2016: missing?Dec 2016: missing?Jan 2017: missing?Feb 2017: missing?Mar 2017: missing?Apr 2017: missing?May 2017: missing?Jun 2017: missing?Jul 2017: missing?Aug 2017: missing?Sep 2017: missing?Oct 2017: missing?Nov 2017: missing?Dec 2017: missing?Jan 2018: missing?Feb 2018: missing?Mar 2018: missing?Apr 2018: missing?May 2018: missing?Jun 2018: missing?Jul 2018: missing?Aug 2018: missing?Sep 2018: missing?Oct 2018: missing?Nov 2018: missing?Dec 2018: missingOct 2016Oct 2017Oct 2018Oct 2019Oct 2020Oct 2021Oct 2022Oct 2023Oct 2024Oct 2025Oct 2026Calendar months

Suggested trend · exploratory · per six months

  1. 1 · Jan 2019–Sep 2026×1.10Fitted increase · 2 zeros fitted as 1

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Interpretation and limitations (11)
  • Exploratory description, not a forecast, causal explanation or proof of a change.
  • Approximate 95% factor intervals assume independent, constant-variance log residuals and fixed boundaries. They do not account for boundary search, serial dependence or source revisions.
  • Confirmed zeros are treated as 1 only for fitting and its diagnostics. Raw counts stay zero; low-count results depend on this convention.
  • Independent phase lines may jump at boundaries. Every observation belongs to exactly one phase.
  • Reporting, classifications and seasonality can change. Counts are not population-adjusted; a level shift without a slope change is not the target of this search.
  • Uses dated last-good cached data, not newly verified source counts.
  • 2 confirmed zeros fitted as 1; raw counts remain zero. Low-count trends are sensitive to this adjustment.
  • 311 status is its value at retrieval, not at request creation. Newer cohorts have had less time to close; Open/Canceled comparisons can reflect workflow or cohort age rather than changing request volume.
  • Current-system 311 coverage starts in 2019. Early phases may reflect adoption/reporting ramp-up; request counts are not completed work or incident prevalence.
  • Many dependent filter conditions were searched. No multiple-testing-adjusted significance or causal attribution is claimed.
  • Frequency compares fixed equal-length windows of raw counts, not population risk or a celeration-factor ratio. Reporting, classifications and exposure may have changed.
Phase diagnostics

Intervals assume fixed boundaries and independent log residuals. They are not adjusted for the phase or filter search. Near-optimal boundary ranges are not confidence intervals.

Saved phase results
PhaseStart–endMonthsFactor / six monthsConditional 95% intervalZeros fitted as 1Lag-one residual
1January 2019–September 202693×1.11.069–1.13620.248
Exact monthly observations (120 slots)

Newest first. Unknown coverage is not a zero. These are the original saved observations, not fitted or rounded predictions.

Raw monthly requests
MonthRaw countCoverage
September 202632complete
August 202636complete
July 202632complete
June 202615complete
May 202633complete
April 202659complete
March 202664complete
February 202630complete
January 202646complete
December 202521complete
November 202523complete
October 202537complete
September 202519complete
August 202525complete
July 202515complete
June 202524complete
May 202516complete
April 20258complete
March 202522complete
February 202524complete
January 202510complete
December 202423complete
November 20247complete
October 202421complete
September 202415complete
August 202412complete
July 20248complete
June 20245complete
May 202416complete
April 202414complete
March 20249complete
February 20244complete
January 20242complete
December 202312complete
November 20236complete
October 202315complete
September 20238complete
August 202311complete
July 202317complete
June 202317complete
May 20237complete
April 202316complete
March 20234complete
February 20235complete
January 202315complete
December 20225complete
November 20225complete
October 20229complete
September 202210complete
August 202211complete
July 202210complete
June 202217complete
May 20228complete
April 202210complete
March 202212complete
February 202211complete
January 202224complete
December 202113complete
November 202114complete
October 20218complete
September 20213complete
August 202114complete
July 202113complete
June 20218complete
May 20219complete
April 20215complete
March 202121complete
February 20216complete
January 20214complete
December 202037complete
November 20206complete
October 20203complete
September 20209complete
August 202010complete
July 202027complete
June 202011complete
May 202010complete
April 202010complete
March 20208complete
February 20205complete
January 20203complete
December 20196complete
November 20199complete
October 20197complete
September 20199complete
August 20198complete
July 20196complete
June 201911complete
May 201912complete
April 20199complete
March 201910complete
February 20190complete
January 20190complete
December 2018Unavailablemissing
November 2018Unavailablemissing
October 2018Unavailablemissing
September 2018Unavailablemissing
August 2018Unavailablemissing
July 2018Unavailablemissing
June 2018Unavailablemissing
May 2018Unavailablemissing
April 2018Unavailablemissing
March 2018Unavailablemissing
February 2018Unavailablemissing
January 2018Unavailablemissing
December 2017Unavailablemissing
November 2017Unavailablemissing
October 2017Unavailablemissing
September 2017Unavailablemissing
August 2017Unavailablemissing
July 2017Unavailablemissing
June 2017Unavailablemissing
May 2017Unavailablemissing
April 2017Unavailablemissing
March 2017Unavailablemissing
February 2017Unavailablemissing
January 2017Unavailablemissing
December 2016Unavailablemissing
November 2016Unavailablemissing
October 2016Unavailablemissing
Source and reproducibility
Publisher dataset
311 Service Requests · City of Chicago
Source retrieved
2026-11-06T12:10:53.153Z
Publisher update
2026-11-06T11:22:56.000Z
Covered months
January 2019–September 2026
Source note
Source v6vf-nfxy. Joint day/category/hour/applicable-flag/ward/status counts; no addresses, coordinates or incident identifiers. Each year's cells reconcile with an independent source total. Reads are not an atomic publisher snapshot. Current 311 system only, legacy_record=false; includes duplicate requests, not completed work. Status is as currently published, grouped by creation date—not historical status or completion date. Prepared daily community-area snapshot; scheduled rebuild at 06:00 America/Chicago. Full supported history is rechecked for corrections. Retrieval timestamps are preserved; this is not a real-time feed. Local indexed neighborhood snapshot. Totals are for the loaded area before other filters, not citywide totals. Citywide and unassigned-area views use a separate network-backed scope.
Snapshot
daily-v1:f761b44d-f9db-4d57-b536-48aea9b60f93:neighborhood-v2:5542b4b9c68ebe097fabe49392bb3e7d
Discovery method
multi-feed-turn-and-frequency-renewal-v2
Analyze method
exploratory-segmented-log10-ols-zero-as-one-v3
Search plan
a3ffccedeb8d8ce18a30df3636839f775af1e5188e55a1f685695133135c6e35
Evidence run
a096ebde5f2c8cfc1f444d3c43e4aedf2781b0450ee3afb4ff5aa5e6addf3caf

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