Before demolition or asbestos work, Chicago requires a notice of intent — 1,253 carry proposed 2026 starts, heaviest on the Near North Side, in Lake View, and in the Loop. The demolition subset runs a different belt, and the complaint file points somewhere else again. All mapped from CDPH’s own files.
Among 132 cleanly comparable L stations, exactly two carried more weekday riders in January–May 2026 than in 2019: Cermak-Chinatown and Morgan. The ten highest recoveries, the six lowest, and the screen behind the ranking.
Chicago’s own inventory listed 12,110 parcels as city-owned on August 3, 2026 — and Englewood holds more than any other community area, with West Englewood second. The top ten, with every count and caveat from the city’s own file.
The median complaint inspection logs three violations; 306 inspection days this year — at 295 distinct Chicago addresses — logged ten or more in a single day. The ledger trail behind the 50 Yard Line’s reported emergency closure, computed from the city’s own violations file.
Chicago’s e-scooter feed logged 9,452,755 trips in 2025, up 41 percent — and two of its four vendors are sidewalk delivery-robot companies by their own announcements. The season shape, the top areas, and the robot rows, from the city’s own data.
Chicago’s overtime bill fell from $523 million in 2023 to $467.7 million in 2025, and the $100,000-overtime club nearly halved. Who tops the list by title and department, and why the bill is far broader than a club — computed from the city’s own payroll file, no names needed.
Branch visits are 18 percent below 2019 and branch checkouts 29 percent below, while downloadable checkouts more than doubled. The 15-year lines, the nine branches that grew, and a lookup for all 67 compared branches.
Ten payee names took 30 cents of every contract dollar Chicago paid in 2025 — nearly the same share as 2019. Who they are, where a single payee takes a majority of a department’s dollars, and the $4.94 billion in direct vouchers the comparison can’t touch.
The highest two-bedroom value on HUD’s FY2026 rent schedule for Chicago’s core ZIPs is a 14-way tie at $2,670 — the cap’s work. The lowest is $1,290, in 60609. Schedule values by ZIP, from the agency’s own files.
The ten Chicago speed-camera locations that recorded the most violations in the year through June 29, 2026, summed from the city’s own violations dataset — led by a single camera on Ashland Avenue beside McKinley Park.
