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North Center: All categories · 18:00–24:00 — Graffiti requests

All categories · 18:00–24:00

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
269
October 2025–September 2026
528
Change in monthly mean
+21.58

The two windows each contain 12 complete covered months. The magnitude of the change is 1.96-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

Suggested 2-phase description — exploratory, not confirmed.

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. Suggested 2-phase description — exploratory, not confirmed. See the phase results table for dates, factors and uncertainty.1510501005001,0005,00010,00050,000100,000500,0001,000,000Requests per monthsuggested phase 1: 2019-01–2024-01suggested phase 2: 2024-02–2026-09Feb 2019: 9Mar 2019: 74Apr 2019: 43May 2019: 34Jun 2019: 51Jul 2019: 48Aug 2019: 127Sep 2019: 33Oct 2019: 28Nov 2019: 9Dec 2019: 9Jan 2020: 34Feb 2020: 40Mar 2020: 30Apr 2020: 6May 2020: 15Jun 2020: 9Jul 2020: 23Aug 2020: 11Sep 2020: 15Oct 2020: 5Nov 2020: 11Dec 2020: 17Jan 2021: 11Feb 2021: 24Mar 2021: 30Apr 2021: 19May 2021: 33Jun 2021: 30Jul 2021: 30Aug 2021: 21Sep 2021: 12Oct 2021: 6Nov 2021: 16Dec 2021: 6Jan 2022: 8Feb 2022: 5Mar 2022: 10Apr 2022: 34May 2022: 13Jun 2022: 18Jul 2022: 20Aug 2022: 16Sep 2022: 14Oct 2022: 6Nov 2022: 13Dec 2022: 7Jan 2023: 11Feb 2023: 5Mar 2023: 7Apr 2023: 7May 2023: 11Jun 2023: 15Jul 2023: 11Aug 2023: 6Sep 2023: 10Oct 2023: 5Nov 2023: 9Dec 2023: 14Jan 2024: 5Feb 2024: 16Mar 2024: 9Apr 2024: 24May 2024: 21Jun 2024: 19Jul 2024: 19Aug 2024: 20Sep 2024: 29Oct 2024: 17Nov 2024: 29Dec 2024: 36Jan 2025: 11Feb 2025: 19Mar 2025: 8Apr 2025: 19May 2025: 29Jun 2025: 25Jul 2025: 8Aug 2025: 28Sep 2025: 40Oct 2025: 31Nov 2025: 31Dec 2025: 93Jan 2026: 42Feb 2026: 40Mar 2026: 64Apr 2026: 45May 2026: 38Jun 2026: 37Jul 2026: 32Aug 2026: 18Sep 2026: 57ZeroUnknownJan 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 phases · exploratory · per six months

  1. 1 · Jan 2019–Jan 2024÷1.12Fitted decrease · 1 zero fitted as 1
  2. 2 · Feb 2024–Sep 2026×1.23Fitted increase

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Interpretation and limitations (12)
  • 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.
  • Boundary ranges show near-optimal models within 2 BIC units, not confidence intervals. They can be narrow even when the model is uncertain.
  • 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–January 202461÷1.120.8346–0.954110.294
2February 2024–September 202632×1.231.099–1.37700.101

Near-optimal boundary range: October 2022–April 2024.

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 202657complete
August 202618complete
July 202632complete
June 202637complete
May 202638complete
April 202645complete
March 202664complete
February 202640complete
January 202642complete
December 202593complete
November 202531complete
October 202531complete
September 202540complete
August 202528complete
July 20258complete
June 202525complete
May 202529complete
April 202519complete
March 20258complete
February 202519complete
January 202511complete
December 202436complete
November 202429complete
October 202417complete
September 202429complete
August 202420complete
July 202419complete
June 202419complete
May 202421complete
April 202424complete
March 20249complete
February 202416complete
January 20245complete
December 202314complete
November 20239complete
October 20235complete
September 202310complete
August 20236complete
July 202311complete
June 202315complete
May 202311complete
April 20237complete
March 20237complete
February 20235complete
January 202311complete
December 20227complete
November 202213complete
October 20226complete
September 202214complete
August 202216complete
July 202220complete
June 202218complete
May 202213complete
April 202234complete
March 202210complete
February 20225complete
January 20228complete
December 20216complete
November 202116complete
October 20216complete
September 202112complete
August 202121complete
July 202130complete
June 202130complete
May 202133complete
April 202119complete
March 202130complete
February 202124complete
January 202111complete
December 202017complete
November 202011complete
October 20205complete
September 202015complete
August 202011complete
July 202023complete
June 20209complete
May 202015complete
April 20206complete
March 202030complete
February 202040complete
January 202034complete
December 20199complete
November 20199complete
October 201928complete
September 201933complete
August 2019127complete
July 201948complete
June 201951complete
May 201934complete
April 201943complete
March 201974complete
February 20199complete
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:f75b8ca38cde596f68f16c57736d4190
Discovery method
multi-feed-turn-and-frequency-renewal-v2
Analyze method
exploratory-segmented-log10-ols-zero-as-one-v3
Search plan
a3ffccedeb8d8ce18a30df3636839f775af1e5188e55a1f685695133135c6e35
Evidence run
120c6cb814990e2b694c1e409876f81be489ba73985e13ef9e543a4717a1e7a0

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