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West Elsdon: All categories · 06:00–12:00 — Graffiti requests

All categories · 06:00–12:00

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
277
October 2025–September 2026
111
Change in monthly mean
-13.83

The two windows each contain 12 complete covered months. The magnitude of the change is 2.5-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: 2Mar 2019: 7Apr 2019: 13May 2019: 28Jun 2019: 30Jul 2019: 54Aug 2019: 42Sep 2019: 24Oct 2019: 45Nov 2019: 46Dec 2019: 35Jan 2020: 32Feb 2020: 40Mar 2020: 27Apr 2020: 33May 2020: 40Jun 2020: 22Jul 2020: 24Aug 2020: 31Sep 2020: 49Oct 2020: 33Nov 2020: 67Dec 2020: 36Jan 2021: 41Feb 2021: 65Mar 2021: 73Apr 2021: 42May 2021: 44Jun 2021: 48Jul 2021: 66Aug 2021: 64Sep 2021: 64Oct 2021: 33Nov 2021: 18Dec 2021: 20Jan 2022: 55Feb 2022: 32Mar 2022: 61Apr 2022: 57May 2022: 19Jun 2022: 35Jul 2022: 21Aug 2022: 26Sep 2022: 31Oct 2022: 18Nov 2022: 19Dec 2022: 34Jan 2023: 29Feb 2023: 36Mar 2023: 71Apr 2023: 46May 2023: 42Jun 2023: 37Jul 2023: 42Aug 2023: 33Sep 2023: 75Oct 2023: 41Nov 2023: 29Dec 2023: 50Jan 2024: 45Feb 2024: 56Mar 2024: 44Apr 2024: 37May 2024: 49Jun 2024: 34Jul 2024: 43Aug 2024: 31Sep 2024: 33Oct 2024: 17Nov 2024: 14Dec 2024: 27Jan 2025: 20Feb 2025: 14Mar 2025: 34Apr 2025: 22May 2025: 27Jun 2025: 20Jul 2025: 28Aug 2025: 34Sep 2025: 20Oct 2025: 17Nov 2025: 8Dec 2025: 6Jan 2026: 6Feb 2026: 7Mar 2026: 9Apr 2026: 12May 2026: 8Jun 2026: 5Jul 2026: 7Aug 2026: 13Sep 2026: 13ZeroUnknownJan 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÷1.04Direction 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÷1.040.9269–0.995310.687
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 202613complete
August 202613complete
July 20267complete
June 20265complete
May 20268complete
April 202612complete
March 20269complete
February 20267complete
January 20266complete
December 20256complete
November 20258complete
October 202517complete
September 202520complete
August 202534complete
July 202528complete
June 202520complete
May 202527complete
April 202522complete
March 202534complete
February 202514complete
January 202520complete
December 202427complete
November 202414complete
October 202417complete
September 202433complete
August 202431complete
July 202443complete
June 202434complete
May 202449complete
April 202437complete
March 202444complete
February 202456complete
January 202445complete
December 202350complete
November 202329complete
October 202341complete
September 202375complete
August 202333complete
July 202342complete
June 202337complete
May 202342complete
April 202346complete
March 202371complete
February 202336complete
January 202329complete
December 202234complete
November 202219complete
October 202218complete
September 202231complete
August 202226complete
July 202221complete
June 202235complete
May 202219complete
April 202257complete
March 202261complete
February 202232complete
January 202255complete
December 202120complete
November 202118complete
October 202133complete
September 202164complete
August 202164complete
July 202166complete
June 202148complete
May 202144complete
April 202142complete
March 202173complete
February 202165complete
January 202141complete
December 202036complete
November 202067complete
October 202033complete
September 202049complete
August 202031complete
July 202024complete
June 202022complete
May 202040complete
April 202033complete
March 202027complete
February 202040complete
January 202032complete
December 201935complete
November 201946complete
October 201945complete
September 201924complete
August 201942complete
July 201954complete
June 201930complete
May 201928complete
April 201913complete
March 20197complete
February 20192complete
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:a1f3194e1a558c8e07f0bdcff3c8227e
Discovery method
multi-feed-turn-and-frequency-renewal-v2
Analyze method
exploratory-segmented-log10-ols-zero-as-one-v3
Search plan
a3ffccedeb8d8ce18a30df3636839f775af1e5188e55a1f685695133135c6e35
Evidence run
a5745b7f816b714691434016078a81d5d68c2b34db9231d21c2d093311044122

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