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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
85
October 2025–September 2026
189
Change in monthly mean
+8.67

The two windows each contain 12 complete covered months. The magnitude of the change is 2.22-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 street potholes 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: 2019-01–2026-09Jan 2019: 2Feb 2019: 21Mar 2019: 28Apr 2019: 29May 2019: 16Jun 2019: 17Jul 2019: 21Aug 2019: 31Sep 2019: 12Oct 2019: 3Nov 2019: 8Dec 2019: 2Jan 2020: 11Feb 2020: 24Mar 2020: 9Apr 2020: 28May 2020: 3Jun 2020: 6Jul 2020: 7Aug 2020: 10Sep 2020: 2Oct 2020: 6Nov 2020: 5Dec 2020: 7Jan 2021: 23Feb 2021: 6Mar 2021: 14Apr 2021: 13May 2021: 10Jun 2021: 9Jul 2021: 10Aug 2021: 8Sep 2021: 18Oct 2021: 3Nov 2021: 2Dec 2021: 3Jan 2022: 18Feb 2022: 30Mar 2022: 42Apr 2022: 13May 2022: 33Jun 2022: 26Jul 2022: 13Aug 2022: 8Sep 2022: 5Oct 2022: 5Nov 2022: 2Dec 2022: 4Jan 2023: 26Feb 2023: 102Mar 2023: 17Apr 2023: 6May 2023: 9Jun 2023: 13Jul 2023: 7Aug 2023: 10Sep 2023: 8Oct 2023: 9Nov 2023: 9Dec 2023: 12Jan 2024: 18Feb 2024: 39Mar 2024: 9Apr 2024: 10May 2024: 18Jun 2024: 12Jul 2024: 13Aug 2024: 4Sep 2024: 4Oct 2024: 7Nov 2024: 5Dec 2024: 4Jan 2025: 12Feb 2025: 4Mar 2025: 14Apr 2025: 6May 2025: 4Jun 2025: 6Jul 2025: 5Aug 2025: 10Sep 2025: 8Oct 2025: 4Dec 2025: 3Jan 2026: 16Feb 2026: 17Mar 2026: 17Apr 2026: 36May 2026: 21Jun 2026: 5Jul 2026: 27Aug 2026: 29Sep 2026: 14ZeroUnknownNov 2025: 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÷1.01Direction 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.
  • 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÷1.010.9545–1.03410.383
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 202614complete
August 202629complete
July 202627complete
June 20265complete
May 202621complete
April 202636complete
March 202617complete
February 202617complete
January 202616complete
December 20253complete
November 20250complete
October 20254complete
September 20258complete
August 202510complete
July 20255complete
June 20256complete
May 20254complete
April 20256complete
March 202514complete
February 20254complete
January 202512complete
December 20244complete
November 20245complete
October 20247complete
September 20244complete
August 20244complete
July 202413complete
June 202412complete
May 202418complete
April 202410complete
March 20249complete
February 202439complete
January 202418complete
December 202312complete
November 20239complete
October 20239complete
September 20238complete
August 202310complete
July 20237complete
June 202313complete
May 20239complete
April 20236complete
March 202317complete
February 2023102complete
January 202326complete
December 20224complete
November 20222complete
October 20225complete
September 20225complete
August 20228complete
July 202213complete
June 202226complete
May 202233complete
April 202213complete
March 202242complete
February 202230complete
January 202218complete
December 20213complete
November 20212complete
October 20213complete
September 202118complete
August 20218complete
July 202110complete
June 20219complete
May 202110complete
April 202113complete
March 202114complete
February 20216complete
January 202123complete
December 20207complete
November 20205complete
October 20206complete
September 20202complete
August 202010complete
July 20207complete
June 20206complete
May 20203complete
April 202028complete
March 20209complete
February 202024complete
January 202011complete
December 20192complete
November 20198complete
October 20193complete
September 201912complete
August 201931complete
July 201921complete
June 201917complete
May 201916complete
April 201929complete
March 201928complete
February 201921complete
January 20192complete
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
2026-11-06T17:28:32.885Z
Publisher update
2026-11-06T15:33:29.000Z
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-v1:8c35ac8d-21c1-45e9-8c56-8bf32f3df7b0:neighborhood-v2:ed4fce43877b916c753e6c9254b610fd
Discovery method
multi-feed-turn-and-frequency-renewal-v2
Analyze method
exploratory-segmented-log10-ols-zero-as-one-v3
Search plan
a3ffccedeb8d8ce18a30df3636839f775af1e5188e55a1f685695133135c6e35
Evidence run
d10f8377396a5623e00f37b2e1282b476ea21ae8032d8d036ab196233ed926a6

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