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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
73
October 2025–September 2026
150
Change in monthly mean
+6.42

The two windows each contain 12 complete covered months. The magnitude of the change is 2.05-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: 1Feb 2019: 11Mar 2019: 16Apr 2019: 8May 2019: 10Jun 2019: 20Jul 2019: 19Aug 2019: 19Sep 2019: 1Oct 2019: 11Nov 2019: 4Dec 2019: 3Jan 2020: 6Feb 2020: 3Mar 2020: 14Apr 2020: 9May 2020: 6Aug 2020: 1Sep 2020: 3Nov 2020: 4Dec 2020: 2Jan 2021: 12Feb 2021: 5Mar 2021: 14Apr 2021: 12May 2021: 2Jun 2021: 3Jul 2021: 3Aug 2021: 2Sep 2021: 3Oct 2021: 6Nov 2021: 3Dec 2021: 4Jan 2022: 4Feb 2022: 1Mar 2022: 10Apr 2022: 15May 2022: 7Jun 2022: 5Jul 2022: 7Aug 2022: 8Sep 2022: 5Oct 2022: 3Nov 2022: 5Dec 2022: 2Jan 2023: 5Feb 2023: 11Mar 2023: 6Apr 2023: 19May 2023: 7Jul 2023: 8Aug 2023: 8Sep 2023: 17Oct 2023: 8Nov 2023: 2Dec 2023: 4Jan 2024: 7Feb 2024: 15Mar 2024: 18Apr 2024: 17May 2024: 4Jun 2024: 15Jul 2024: 13Aug 2024: 13Sep 2024: 8Oct 2024: 1Nov 2024: 5Dec 2024: 5Jan 2025: 5Feb 2025: 20Mar 2025: 16Apr 2025: 4May 2025: 2Jun 2025: 1Jul 2025: 5Aug 2025: 4Sep 2025: 5Oct 2025: 4Nov 2025: 3Dec 2025: 15Jan 2026: 19Feb 2026: 18Mar 2026: 19Apr 2026: 25May 2026: 20Jun 2026: 10Jul 2026: 8Aug 2026: 4Sep 2026: 5ZeroUnknownJun 2020: zero requests; not connectedJul 2020: zero requests; not connectedOct 2020: zero requests; not connectedJun 2023: 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 2026×1.04Direction uncertain (serial pattern) · 4 zeros 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.
  • 4 confirmed zeros 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 202693×1.040.9956–1.08340.338
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 20265complete
August 20264complete
July 20268complete
June 202610complete
May 202620complete
April 202625complete
March 202619complete
February 202618complete
January 202619complete
December 202515complete
November 20253complete
October 20254complete
September 20255complete
August 20254complete
July 20255complete
June 20251complete
May 20252complete
April 20254complete
March 202516complete
February 202520complete
January 20255complete
December 20245complete
November 20245complete
October 20241complete
September 20248complete
August 202413complete
July 202413complete
June 202415complete
May 20244complete
April 202417complete
March 202418complete
February 202415complete
January 20247complete
December 20234complete
November 20232complete
October 20238complete
September 202317complete
August 20238complete
July 20238complete
June 20230complete
May 20237complete
April 202319complete
March 20236complete
February 202311complete
January 20235complete
December 20222complete
November 20225complete
October 20223complete
September 20225complete
August 20228complete
July 20227complete
June 20225complete
May 20227complete
April 202215complete
March 202210complete
February 20221complete
January 20224complete
December 20214complete
November 20213complete
October 20216complete
September 20213complete
August 20212complete
July 20213complete
June 20213complete
May 20212complete
April 202112complete
March 202114complete
February 20215complete
January 202112complete
December 20202complete
November 20204complete
October 20200complete
September 20203complete
August 20201complete
July 20200complete
June 20200complete
May 20206complete
April 20209complete
March 202014complete
February 20203complete
January 20206complete
December 20193complete
November 20194complete
October 201911complete
September 20191complete
August 201919complete
July 201919complete
June 201920complete
May 201910complete
April 20198complete
March 201916complete
February 201911complete
January 20191complete
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:c943de8a1a158b13bfd633f76d5764b5
Discovery method
multi-feed-turn-and-frequency-renewal-v2
Analyze method
exploratory-segmented-log10-ols-zero-as-one-v3
Search plan
a3ffccedeb8d8ce18a30df3636839f775af1e5188e55a1f685695133135c6e35
Evidence run
f28bccbd29343d46abdf885621a426813bf576e15aeafde6765b47c764e2349d

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