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Armour Square: All categories · Status: Completed — Pothole requests

All categories · Status: Completed

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
149
October 2025–September 2026
249
Change in monthly mean
+8.33

The two windows each contain 12 complete covered months. The magnitude of the change is 1.67-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: 4Feb 2019: 32Mar 2019: 51Apr 2019: 28May 2019: 37Jun 2019: 48Jul 2019: 46Aug 2019: 36Sep 2019: 13Oct 2019: 21Nov 2019: 12Dec 2019: 9Jan 2020: 27Feb 2020: 23Mar 2020: 20Apr 2020: 23May 2020: 16Jun 2020: 7Jul 2020: 4Aug 2020: 2Sep 2020: 6Oct 2020: 2Nov 2020: 6Dec 2020: 4Jan 2021: 39Feb 2021: 11Mar 2021: 25Apr 2021: 19May 2021: 4Jun 2021: 6Jul 2021: 3Aug 2021: 3Sep 2021: 10Oct 2021: 8Nov 2021: 5Dec 2021: 5Jan 2022: 23Feb 2022: 6Mar 2022: 47Apr 2022: 37May 2022: 27Jun 2022: 12Jul 2022: 18Aug 2022: 16Sep 2022: 11Oct 2022: 10Nov 2022: 11Dec 2022: 5Jan 2023: 18Feb 2023: 17Mar 2023: 18Apr 2023: 29May 2023: 14Jun 2023: 6Jul 2023: 15Aug 2023: 27Sep 2023: 25Oct 2023: 10Nov 2023: 9Dec 2023: 10Jan 2024: 20Feb 2024: 36Mar 2024: 31Apr 2024: 20May 2024: 5Jun 2024: 21Jul 2024: 19Aug 2024: 24Sep 2024: 12Oct 2024: 7Nov 2024: 6Dec 2024: 8Jan 2025: 10Feb 2025: 25Mar 2025: 33Apr 2025: 12May 2025: 10Jun 2025: 6Jul 2025: 13Aug 2025: 10Sep 2025: 9Oct 2025: 13Nov 2025: 7Dec 2025: 22Jan 2026: 33Feb 2026: 19Mar 2026: 40Apr 2026: 36May 2026: 38Jun 2026: 16Jul 2026: 11Aug 2026: 7Sep 2026: 7ZeroUnknown?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 2026×1.00Direction uncertain (serial pattern)

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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.
  • 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 202693×10.9666–1.04000.491
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 20267complete
August 20267complete
July 202611complete
June 202616complete
May 202638complete
April 202636complete
March 202640complete
February 202619complete
January 202633complete
December 202522complete
November 20257complete
October 202513complete
September 20259complete
August 202510complete
July 202513complete
June 20256complete
May 202510complete
April 202512complete
March 202533complete
February 202525complete
January 202510complete
December 20248complete
November 20246complete
October 20247complete
September 202412complete
August 202424complete
July 202419complete
June 202421complete
May 20245complete
April 202420complete
March 202431complete
February 202436complete
January 202420complete
December 202310complete
November 20239complete
October 202310complete
September 202325complete
August 202327complete
July 202315complete
June 20236complete
May 202314complete
April 202329complete
March 202318complete
February 202317complete
January 202318complete
December 20225complete
November 202211complete
October 202210complete
September 202211complete
August 202216complete
July 202218complete
June 202212complete
May 202227complete
April 202237complete
March 202247complete
February 20226complete
January 202223complete
December 20215complete
November 20215complete
October 20218complete
September 202110complete
August 20213complete
July 20213complete
June 20216complete
May 20214complete
April 202119complete
March 202125complete
February 202111complete
January 202139complete
December 20204complete
November 20206complete
October 20202complete
September 20206complete
August 20202complete
July 20204complete
June 20207complete
May 202016complete
April 202023complete
March 202020complete
February 202023complete
January 202027complete
December 20199complete
November 201912complete
October 201921complete
September 201913complete
August 201936complete
July 201946complete
June 201948complete
May 201937complete
April 201928complete
March 201951complete
February 201932complete
January 20194complete
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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