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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
487
October 2025–September 2026
736
Change in monthly mean
+20.75

The two windows each contain 12 complete covered months. The magnitude of the change is 1.51-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 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. 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: 2019-01–2026-09Jan 2019: 20Feb 2019: 190Mar 2019: 180Apr 2019: 71May 2019: 95Jun 2019: 123Jul 2019: 82Aug 2019: 86Sep 2019: 107Oct 2019: 86Nov 2019: 55Dec 2019: 61Jan 2020: 52Feb 2020: 60Mar 2020: 92Apr 2020: 49May 2020: 42Jun 2020: 33Jul 2020: 23Aug 2020: 22Sep 2020: 23Oct 2020: 20Nov 2020: 17Dec 2020: 33Jan 2021: 52Feb 2021: 30Mar 2021: 56Apr 2021: 22May 2021: 19Jun 2021: 31Jul 2021: 41Aug 2021: 20Sep 2021: 22Oct 2021: 27Nov 2021: 35Dec 2021: 20Jan 2022: 24Feb 2022: 41Mar 2022: 106Apr 2022: 76May 2022: 74Jun 2022: 40Jul 2022: 41Aug 2022: 39Sep 2022: 22Oct 2022: 29Nov 2022: 19Dec 2022: 25Jan 2023: 66Feb 2023: 40Mar 2023: 73Apr 2023: 29May 2023: 40Jun 2023: 32Jul 2023: 47Aug 2023: 60Sep 2023: 34Oct 2023: 22Nov 2023: 28Dec 2023: 36Jan 2024: 48Feb 2024: 59Mar 2024: 67Apr 2024: 44May 2024: 67Jun 2024: 52Jul 2024: 72Aug 2024: 35Sep 2024: 25Oct 2024: 36Nov 2024: 36Dec 2024: 12Jan 2025: 34Feb 2025: 34Mar 2025: 60Apr 2025: 69May 2025: 35Jun 2025: 39Jul 2025: 57Aug 2025: 38Sep 2025: 37Oct 2025: 25Nov 2025: 10Dec 2025: 11Jan 2026: 59Feb 2026: 77Mar 2026: 106Apr 2026: 138May 2026: 79Jun 2026: 66Jul 2026: 81Aug 2026: 49Sep 2026: 35ZeroUnknown?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÷1.02Direction uncertain (serial pattern)

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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.
  • 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÷1.020.9575–1.01300.575
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 202635complete
August 202649complete
July 202681complete
June 202666complete
May 202679complete
April 2026138complete
March 2026106complete
February 202677complete
January 202659complete
December 202511complete
November 202510complete
October 202525complete
September 202537complete
August 202538complete
July 202557complete
June 202539complete
May 202535complete
April 202569complete
March 202560complete
February 202534complete
January 202534complete
December 202412complete
November 202436complete
October 202436complete
September 202425complete
August 202435complete
July 202472complete
June 202452complete
May 202467complete
April 202444complete
March 202467complete
February 202459complete
January 202448complete
December 202336complete
November 202328complete
October 202322complete
September 202334complete
August 202360complete
July 202347complete
June 202332complete
May 202340complete
April 202329complete
March 202373complete
February 202340complete
January 202366complete
December 202225complete
November 202219complete
October 202229complete
September 202222complete
August 202239complete
July 202241complete
June 202240complete
May 202274complete
April 202276complete
March 2022106complete
February 202241complete
January 202224complete
December 202120complete
November 202135complete
October 202127complete
September 202122complete
August 202120complete
July 202141complete
June 202131complete
May 202119complete
April 202122complete
March 202156complete
February 202130complete
January 202152complete
December 202033complete
November 202017complete
October 202020complete
September 202023complete
August 202022complete
July 202023complete
June 202033complete
May 202042complete
April 202049complete
March 202092complete
February 202060complete
January 202052complete
December 201961complete
November 201955complete
October 201986complete
September 2019107complete
August 201986complete
July 201982complete
June 2019123complete
May 201995complete
April 201971complete
March 2019180complete
February 2019190complete
January 201920complete
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-v2:90f6f582a59624df54efd6a405793fb9
Discovery method
multi-feed-turn-and-frequency-renewal-v2
Analyze method
exploratory-segmented-log10-ols-zero-as-one-v3
Search plan
a3ffccedeb8d8ce18a30df3636839f775af1e5188e55a1f685695133135c6e35
Evidence run
244f0af80cc6a79e970277b8c0071e9274bc70757feedd629d65e7f0f5236d36

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