$POTHOLE
Pothole complaints in Chicago
4,21111.4% downon the month before
complaints in Oct 2026Up 83% from 2,302 in Oct 2025
Quiet. 4,211 complaints in Oct 2026, down 11.4% on the month before.
From Sep 2025 to Oct 2026.
How it is counted
Normal3,108 to 6,496
Highest12,523Apr 2026
Unusual months0
- Counts
- Pothole complaints made to Chicago's 311 service in a month, streets and alleys together (service codes PHF, Pothole in Street Complaint, and PHB, Alley Pothole Complaint), by the date each was made. Every complaint counts, duplicates included. Counted from February 2019, the first month the file holds pothole complaints at their usual volume: a few hundred a month in late 2018, 1,406 in January 2019, 9,950 in February.
- Why it is here
- Chicago filed 16,350 pothole complaints in March 2019, the month the ground thawed.
- Terms
- City of Chicago Data Terms of Use: derivative use is allowed with the city's disclaimer on the page.
- Cadence
- Monthly. 311 posts complaints within a day; a month prints three days after it ends. Newest complete month Oct 2026. Read Nov 13, 03:40 UTC.
- Baseline
- The prior 24 months, 12 needed.
- Notice
- This site provides applications using data that has been modified for use from its original source, www.cityofchicago.org, the official website of the City of Chicago. The City of Chicago makes no claims as to the content, accuracy, timeliness, or completeness of any of the data provided at this site. The data provided at this site is subject to change at any time. It is understood that the data provided at this site is being used at one's own risk.
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Chicago residents made 4,211 pothole complaints to 311 in Oct 2026, according to Tickerz, which counts them from city open data.
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- How many potholes are reported in Chicago?
- 4,211 pothole complaints, streets and alleys, were made to Chicago's 311 service in Oct 2026, counted by Tickerz from the city's open data.
- Where does the $POTHOLE number come from?
- Tickerz reads it from City of Chicago, 311 Service Requests, service codes PHF and PHB. Monthly. 311 posts complaints within a day; a month prints three days after it ends. Each number is kept as it was first published, with a timestamped proof, and any later revision is shown beside it.
- Can I download the $POTHOLE data?
- Yes, free and with no key: the full history as JSON at https://tickerz.com/api/indices/pothole and every period as CSV at https://tickerz.com/api/indices/pothole/history.csv.
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No listing kit for $POTHOLE yet. A kit sets its strikes from 14 published numbers. This index publishes one a month and has none yet.
Resolution
- Index
- $POTHOLE Pothole complaints in Chicago. Rulebook v0.2, 2026-10-04.
- Prints
- Monthly. 311 posts complaints within a day; a month prints three days after it ends. The newest complete month is on the record after the daily proof at 12:40 UTC.
- As first published
Oct 2026 is not timestamped yet. The daily proof at 12:40 UTC adds it.
The number as first published is final for settlement. A revision by the source is shown beside it and never replaces it.
- Fallback
- A month prints three days after it ends. If 311 posts nothing for the month, it stays open. A month 311 never posts is void.
- Precision
- Whole complaints with service code PHF or PHB, by created date, Chicago time as the city records it.
- Cost to move
- Cheap in small numbers. A complaint is a phone call or a web form.
- Grade
- display. Complaints, not holes: one bad block brings many calls. Shown, not settled on.
- For a rulebook
- Settle on the number Tickerz first recorded for $POTHOLE for the month named in the contract, published at tickerz.com/x/pothole and in GET /api/indices/pothole, timestamped daily in Bitcoin with OpenTimestamps.
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- Every reading is timestamped in Bitcoin once a day, so nobody can change it later. The newest proof covers Nov 12, in Bitcoin block 975,557.Proof fileLive feedHow it works
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