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.
The parking-meter concession read from the documents the city posts: a 75-year lease from February 13, 2009 priced at exactly $1,151,355,186, the audited true-up ledger - $160,953,305 paid by the city through 2024 - the operator's $188.7M 2025 revenues, and the December 2025 agreement by its owners to sell, awaiting Council action as of the audit's April 2026 cutoff.
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.
Chicago's house-share ledger runs both directions: 3,852 active registrations spread across all 50 wards - and a prohibited list of 2,230 buildings totaling 184,978 units whose owners or boards filed to bar house-sharing, heaviest on the high-rise lakefront. Three city files read at their own grains, host names never touched, and the list's unusable vote dates disclosed rather than smoothed.
Chicago's own GIS of the Pedway sums to 6.66 miles of traced walkway across 44 named routes - while the dataset's own description says 'roughly five miles.' Both figures are the city's; we added up the map. The ten longest links, the 2013 time-capsule route names, and what the Pedway is not - measured entirely from the city's last published map of the system.
