Chicago rideshare trips cost $4.21 a mile all-in in June 2026, and where the trip starts moves that number by a factor of two. The five most and least expensive pickup areas, from the city’s own trip files.
The ten busiest measured street segments in Chicago, ranked from the city’s camera-derived Average Daily Traffic feed — four of them on one stretch of Cicero Avenue.
Every license-bearing failed food inspection 2019-2024, followed to the same license's next recorded visit: 84.6% ended in a pass, 12.3% failed again, and among fails that later reached a pass the median wait was 7 days. The fast clock in Chicago enforcement - set against the building-violation ledger's slow one.
The city's own land inventory: 12,110 parcels marked owned, a fifth of the located ones in Englewood and West Englewood alone. Sales fell from 259 in 2024 to 195 in 2025; just 874 parcels are marked Offered. Among 2023-and-later sales with both dates, the median parcel had been city property for 23.4 years.
Chicago rideshare riders paid $4.21 a mile in June 2026, up from $3.81 three Junes earlier - but the fare component fell from $2.90 to $2.51. The 'additional charges' line grew from 18.2% to 34.6% of the bill, with the climb starting in mid-2025. Lincoln Park pickups run $5.51 a mile; West Pullman, $2.73.
Chicago issued wrecking permits at 4,482 sites in 2018-2022. We matched every one against the city's new-construction permits by parcel number and address: 42.8 percent show a rebuild permit. Logan Square, 187 of 222. West Englewood, 1 of 287. West Pullman, 0 of 137. Where a rebuild comes, the median gap is 50 days.
Chicago's enforcement cameras produce a daily traffic count almost nobody reads: 2.2 million readings across 2,280 street segments this summer. On the 1,572 segments measured in both 2025 and 2026, the median changed -0.4 percent. The busiest stretch: Ontario at La Salle, 33,466 vehicles a day. Cicero Avenue owns four of the top ten.
Chicago wrote 89,021 building violations in 2019 that are marked open or complied today. Just 42.7 percent are marked complied - 24.9 percent in Englewood, 66.6 percent on the Near North Side. We mapped the complied share across every community area with at least 500 violations, for the 2019 and 2023 cohorts.
Englewood’s median house sold for $32,341 in 2019, the lowest of the 70 Chicago community areas with enough sales to compare, and $115,000 in 2025, the second-largest rise. Of the 3,030 parcels classed as two-to-six-flats there in 2006, 588 have left the class, and 358 of those are now classed as vacant land. Rebuilt September 30, 2026 on the county’s updated sales file.
Pullman’s median house sold for $68,900 in 2019 and $178,000 in 2025, the fourth-largest rise among the 70 Chicago community areas with enough sales to compare, on 63 sales. Of the 423 homes bought in the Far South Side area from 2018 through 2022, 63 were sold again by their buyer within two years, 15 percent against 7 percent citywide. Rebuilt September 30, 2026 on the county’s updated sales file.
