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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
190
October 2025–September 2026
397
Change in monthly mean
+17.25

The two windows each contain 12 complete covered months. The magnitude of the change is 2.09-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

Phase suggestions withheld: serial pattern remains in the candidate fits. Manual boundaries can explore, not confirm, a change.

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. Phase suggestions withheld: serial pattern remains in the candidate fits. Manual boundaries can explore, not confirm, a change. See the phase results table for dates, factors and uncertainty.1510501005001,0005,00010,00050,000100,000500,0001,000,000Requests per monthSingle-trend reference: 2019-01–2026-09Feb 2019: 1Mar 2019: 1Apr 2019: 1May 2019: 5Jun 2019: 13Jul 2019: 9Aug 2019: 9Sep 2019: 2Oct 2019: 2Nov 2019: 12Dec 2019: 2Jan 2020: 3Feb 2020: 4Mar 2020: 8Apr 2020: 6May 2020: 12Jun 2020: 24Jul 2020: 12Aug 2020: 15Sep 2020: 14Oct 2020: 11Nov 2020: 18Dec 2020: 25Jan 2021: 36Feb 2021: 23Mar 2021: 16Apr 2021: 7May 2021: 21Jun 2021: 7Jul 2021: 17Aug 2021: 15Sep 2021: 8Oct 2021: 12Nov 2021: 29Dec 2021: 9Jan 2022: 7Feb 2022: 5Mar 2022: 15Apr 2022: 6May 2022: 11Jun 2022: 17Jul 2022: 17Aug 2022: 29Sep 2022: 3Oct 2022: 13Nov 2022: 3Dec 2022: 3Jan 2023: 5Feb 2023: 5Mar 2023: 4Apr 2023: 6May 2023: 7Jun 2023: 16Jul 2023: 14Aug 2023: 10Sep 2023: 4Oct 2023: 4Nov 2023: 3Dec 2023: 8Jan 2024: 23Feb 2024: 5Mar 2024: 45Apr 2024: 32May 2024: 9Jun 2024: 26Jul 2024: 19Aug 2024: 27Sep 2024: 16Oct 2024: 16Nov 2024: 22Dec 2024: 8Jan 2025: 2Feb 2025: 4Mar 2025: 16Apr 2025: 11May 2025: 13Jun 2025: 25Jul 2025: 22Aug 2025: 34Sep 2025: 17Oct 2025: 21Nov 2025: 21Dec 2025: 34Jan 2026: 14Feb 2026: 19Mar 2026: 41Apr 2026: 50May 2026: 35Jun 2026: 33Jul 2026: 72Aug 2026: 25Sep 2026: 32ZeroUnknownJan 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

Single-trend reference · exploratory · per six months

  1. 1 · Jan 2019–Sep 2026×1.12Direction uncertain (serial pattern) · 1 zero fitted as 1

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Interpretation and limitations (13)
  • 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.
  • 1 confirmed zero fitted as 1; raw counts remain zero. Low-count trends are sensitive to this adjustment.
  • The best candidate failed the residual-independence diagnostic. A single-trend reference is shown instead; this does not establish a stable trend.
  • Serial pattern in residuals: independence is doubtful; the reported intervals may be too narrow. Seasonality is not modeled.
  • 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 202693×1.121.074–1.16110.496
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 202625complete
July 202672complete
June 202633complete
May 202635complete
April 202650complete
March 202641complete
February 202619complete
January 202614complete
December 202534complete
November 202521complete
October 202521complete
September 202517complete
August 202534complete
July 202522complete
June 202525complete
May 202513complete
April 202511complete
March 202516complete
February 20254complete
January 20252complete
December 20248complete
November 202422complete
October 202416complete
September 202416complete
August 202427complete
July 202419complete
June 202426complete
May 20249complete
April 202432complete
March 202445complete
February 20245complete
January 202423complete
December 20238complete
November 20233complete
October 20234complete
September 20234complete
August 202310complete
July 202314complete
June 202316complete
May 20237complete
April 20236complete
March 20234complete
February 20235complete
January 20235complete
December 20223complete
November 20223complete
October 202213complete
September 20223complete
August 202229complete
July 202217complete
June 202217complete
May 202211complete
April 20226complete
March 202215complete
February 20225complete
January 20227complete
December 20219complete
November 202129complete
October 202112complete
September 20218complete
August 202115complete
July 202117complete
June 20217complete
May 202121complete
April 20217complete
March 202116complete
February 202123complete
January 202136complete
December 202025complete
November 202018complete
October 202011complete
September 202014complete
August 202015complete
July 202012complete
June 202024complete
May 202012complete
April 20206complete
March 20208complete
February 20204complete
January 20203complete
December 20192complete
November 201912complete
October 20192complete
September 20192complete
August 20199complete
July 20199complete
June 201913complete
May 20195complete
April 20191complete
March 20191complete
February 20191complete
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:b039783c01de43752b5e04e452681bd9
Discovery method
multi-feed-turn-and-frequency-renewal-v2
Analyze method
exploratory-segmented-log10-ols-zero-as-one-v3
Search plan
a3ffccedeb8d8ce18a30df3636839f775af1e5188e55a1f685695133135c6e35
Evidence run
49a7e96b34e61bac0b6cc5ab08ffc842cd9bd783b530a50f92e373a530251bdd

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