The Loop holds 77 of the 409 placed entries on Chicago's individual-landmark register - one in five - with the Near North Side second at 43. Twelve areas listed, because the cut lands mid-tie at 12; districts counted separately; every tie shown at shared rank.
The 1st Ward leads Chicago with 276 active shared-housing registrations - the city's term for Airbnb-style rental permission - with the 44th and 27th behind it and the top ten wards holding 46 percent of the citywide 3,852. Ward grain by design: the file's host names and addresses were never touched.
Austin leads Chicago with 6,777 two-to-six-flat parcels on the Assessor's 2026 roll, ahead of West Town and Logan Square - the top ten areas hold 38 percent of the city's 119,978. Class-211 parcels, not buildings, with the shrinking-stock arc in the companion analysis.
On September 29, 2026 the City Council voted 46 to 3 to approve, on conditions, the proposed sale of the company that holds Chicago’s parking meters, with a lease amendment under which the city is to receive $75 million, five percent of the company’s net income each year as the amendment defines it, and two percent of what the owners are paid in a later transfer that needs city approval. The 75-year lease itself, priced at $1,156,500,000 in the agreement and $1,151,355,186 on the operator’s books, and the $160,953,305 in true-up payments the city made through fiscal 2024, read from the documents.
West Town leads Chicago in bike-rack installation records since 2015 with 739, the Loop nine behind - and the top ten areas hold just over half the file's 9,448 mapped records. No complete rack census exists in any city file; this list ranks the records that do.
Eight of Chicago's high-volume 311 request types, ranked by median days from creation to recorded closure: traffic signals in about three hours, graffiti under a day, potholes about five days with an 89-day slow tail, garbage carts about 15 days. 793,774 requests timed.
Chicago's bike-rack records come in two files that were never merged: 9,449 records of installs since 2015 - reaching all 77 community areas, led by West Town and the Loop - and a 5,164-row file frozen in 2011. More than half the current records carry no type, the quantity column's unit is unstated, and no complete rack count exists in either file.
Sixteen adopted budget ordinances, 2011-2026, read as one: the only department label in every file is Finance General, which nearly tripled to $8.19 billion - 44 percent of the $18.67 billion 2026 ordinance - while the salaries account's share fell from 29 to 19 percent. Authorizations, never spending.
CDOT's permit file, read whole: 2,300,109 rows, 1,801,871 distinct applications - and 985,144 of them marked Open, including 88,142 with 2016 start dates. Eleven permit types from public-way openings to dumpsters, the year arc since 2013, and the file's calendar noise, disclosed.
Chicago's TIF Investment Committee recorded 1,698 decisions on requests for TIF money across 2019-2024 - 1,515 approvals carrying $4.48 billion of the $4.95 billion asked - and its recorded outcomes contain no denial category at all. The biggest ask: the Red Line Extension's $950 million. Both committee files read at their own boundaries, with the 2025-26 file's missing outcome column disclosed.
