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Rogers Park: All categories · 12:00–18:00 — Graffiti requests

All categories · 12:00–18:00

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
1,060
October 2025–September 2026
537
Change in monthly mean
-43.58

The two windows each contain 12 complete covered months. The magnitude of the change is 1.97-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: 2019-01–2026-09Mar 2019: 12Apr 2019: 12May 2019: 15Jun 2019: 61Jul 2019: 94Aug 2019: 69Sep 2019: 72Oct 2019: 31Nov 2019: 46Dec 2019: 112Jan 2020: 178Feb 2020: 46Mar 2020: 82Apr 2020: 61May 2020: 103Jun 2020: 147Jul 2020: 74Aug 2020: 95Sep 2020: 173Oct 2020: 110Nov 2020: 87Dec 2020: 160Jan 2021: 38Feb 2021: 13Mar 2021: 51Apr 2021: 75May 2021: 65Jun 2021: 60Jul 2021: 45Aug 2021: 94Sep 2021: 44Oct 2021: 45Nov 2021: 35Dec 2021: 20Jan 2022: 71Feb 2022: 53Mar 2022: 96Apr 2022: 77May 2022: 90Jun 2022: 36Jul 2022: 78Aug 2022: 147Sep 2022: 73Oct 2022: 45Nov 2022: 49Dec 2022: 36Jan 2023: 38Feb 2023: 73Mar 2023: 60Apr 2023: 74May 2023: 99Jun 2023: 49Jul 2023: 51Aug 2023: 54Sep 2023: 39Oct 2023: 80Nov 2023: 75Dec 2023: 51Jan 2024: 76Feb 2024: 69Mar 2024: 81Apr 2024: 69May 2024: 59Jun 2024: 40Jul 2024: 87Aug 2024: 71Sep 2024: 57Oct 2024: 109Nov 2024: 85Dec 2024: 118Jan 2025: 122Feb 2025: 110Mar 2025: 102Apr 2025: 96May 2025: 98Jun 2025: 54Jul 2025: 72Aug 2025: 55Sep 2025: 39Oct 2025: 60Nov 2025: 43Dec 2025: 26Jan 2026: 23Feb 2026: 52Mar 2026: 71Apr 2026: 70May 2026: 54Jun 2026: 40Jul 2026: 32Aug 2026: 28Sep 2026: 38ZeroUnknownJan 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

Single-trend reference · exploratory · per six months

  1. 1 · Jan 2019–Sep 2026×1.03Direction uncertain (serial pattern) · 2 zeros fitted as 1

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Interpretation and limitations (14)
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • At least one factor interval includes 1; its direction is uncertain under this approximation.
  • 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 202693×1.030.9954–1.07420.602
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 202638complete
August 202628complete
July 202632complete
June 202640complete
May 202654complete
April 202670complete
March 202671complete
February 202652complete
January 202623complete
December 202526complete
November 202543complete
October 202560complete
September 202539complete
August 202555complete
July 202572complete
June 202554complete
May 202598complete
April 202596complete
March 2025102complete
February 2025110complete
January 2025122complete
December 2024118complete
November 202485complete
October 2024109complete
September 202457complete
August 202471complete
July 202487complete
June 202440complete
May 202459complete
April 202469complete
March 202481complete
February 202469complete
January 202476complete
December 202351complete
November 202375complete
October 202380complete
September 202339complete
August 202354complete
July 202351complete
June 202349complete
May 202399complete
April 202374complete
March 202360complete
February 202373complete
January 202338complete
December 202236complete
November 202249complete
October 202245complete
September 202273complete
August 2022147complete
July 202278complete
June 202236complete
May 202290complete
April 202277complete
March 202296complete
February 202253complete
January 202271complete
December 202120complete
November 202135complete
October 202145complete
September 202144complete
August 202194complete
July 202145complete
June 202160complete
May 202165complete
April 202175complete
March 202151complete
February 202113complete
January 202138complete
December 2020160complete
November 202087complete
October 2020110complete
September 2020173complete
August 202095complete
July 202074complete
June 2020147complete
May 2020103complete
April 202061complete
March 202082complete
February 202046complete
January 2020178complete
December 2019112complete
November 201946complete
October 201931complete
September 201972complete
August 201969complete
July 201994complete
June 201961complete
May 201915complete
April 201912complete
March 201912complete
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:d51796843d7e255630be5dc7ea174ad7
Discovery method
multi-feed-turn-and-frequency-renewal-v2
Analyze method
exploratory-segmented-log10-ols-zero-as-one-v3
Search plan
a3ffccedeb8d8ce18a30df3636839f775af1e5188e55a1f685695133135c6e35
Evidence run
39d6373d0ed07bfdcd2b35a1fb620ea1524533561f9dbf8df2aba3cc5493db8f

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