The community area holding the West Loop leads all 77 in new-construction permits and has one of the only two above-2019 L stations - yet trips none of our five gentrification signals. Every figure linked to its source analysis.
Every figure our analyses have measured about East Garfield Park on one page: home sales, permits, licenses, mortgages, 311 timing, subsidized housing and the Conservatory stop, each linked to its source analysis.
A pre-registered baseline. Before the 5.5-mile extension to 130th opens, we froze the corridor's numbers - home prices, permits, licenses, 95th/Dan Ryan ridership - and published the exact list of what we will re-measure when trains run. House medians in the three higher-volume areas have at least doubled since 2019, from some of the lowest floors in the city.
EIA's own state table: Illinois average residential electricity went from 18.58 to 23.85 cents per kilowatt-hour, May 2025 to May 2026 - a 28 percent jump, the largest of the fifty states and DC, while the national average rose 6. Every sector paid more. The table doesn't say why, and neither do we.
7.1 million recorded violations since mid-2014, from a fleet that has held still: 300 cameras at about 150 intersections. The counts peaked in 2023 and have eased since - the opposite path from the speed cameras we counted this week. Lake Shore Drive and Belmont leads at 74 a day.
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.
