20.6 million recorded violations since 2014. We summed all 490,578 daily camera records: the 2021 six-mph threshold nearly quadrupled the count, 2025 saw the biggest jump in cameras recording, 2026 is running 17 percent ahead - and ten locations account for three violations in ten.
Illinois audits found border agents with access to license-plate camera data, against state law. We counted the footprint: at least 116 Chicagoland police agencies with documented Flock plate-reader use, and one suburb's own disclosure page listing 463 organizations that can search its cameras.
New York City's rent board set 2026-27 stabilized increases at zero; a 1997 Illinois law bars Chicago from controlling private rents at all. We counted the lever Chicago does publish: 598 city-supported affordable rental developments, 29,550 listed units, a third of them senior housing.
We classified 3,016 Chicago restaurant addresses where an inspector recorded an Out of Business finding since 2019. 56 percent had a newly observed food-business license within two years - and the four areas with the most emptied addresses, the Near North Side, the Loop, Lake View and the Near West Side, all sit below that rate.
Fourteen states and more than one hundred local governments have weighed pausing data centers since the start of 2026. Chicago's building-permit file shows 92 data-center permits and $492 million in reported construction cost since 2015 - including a seven-story office building cleared this July for conversion.
National housing forecasts flipped toward flat in June. Chicago's recorded house sales, compared over matched January-April windows, ran 23% ahead of last year with the median up 5.9% - and we show exactly where recording lag stops the comparison.
We read all 856 ADU-related building permits since Chicago's pilot began and counted conservatively: 201 ADU permits in five-plus years, two-thirds of them in five North Side areas. The citywide expansion went live in April 2026 - this count is its baseline.
We matched every tax-year-2025 Chicago house appeal across both stages, parcel by parcel. The Assessor granted no reduction to five in six parcels that appealed; 93% of those later appeared at the Board of Review, and 42.5% received the reduction there. The 2026 appeal season opened July 27.
We matched 11,854 arms-length 2025 Chicago house sales to their tax-year-2025 valuations. The citywide median valuation implies 81% of what buyers paid; the gap is widest on the South Side, where the 2027 reassessment has the most ground to remeasure.
We mapped all 77,942 Chicago house appeals from tax year 2025 against 446,354 house parcels. Filing runs about 12 times higher on the North Side lakefront than on the Southwest and Southeast Sides - and the low-filing areas win more often when they file.
