chiwardboard.com
See where the city fills potholes fastest.
Location stays in your browser. Or just click a ward on the map.
Typical days = the middle request: half close faster, half slower. Closed in a week = the share shut within seven days. Requests still open count toward both. Click any ward for its full report card.
On a bike in Chicago
Open more than a year
How we counted
What’s on the board, and what isn’t
- The board tracks request types where a closure plausibly means work happened - a tow, a filled pothole, a baited alley. Informational calls and aircraft noise are off: the city logs those at its own buildings (the 311 call center in Ward 28, O’Hare in Ward 41), so they describe a facility, not a neighborhood.
- Some types close almost instantly citywide. We show them anyway, and say so on the board.
- Sidewalk repairs are ranked on what the city has not finished: it completes too few to time, and leaves about a third open. Every other type here closes eventually.
- Bike lane obstructions are off the board - about 630 a year across all 50 wards, far too few to compare wards on. Ward pages carry bike crashes and route mileage as context instead, never as a rank.
- Only 2024, 2025 and the rolling 12 months are offered: the ward map changed in May 2023, and comparing across it would compare different areas under the same ward numbers.
Useful links
City services
- File a 311 request (CHI311)
- Street sweeping schedule
- Sweeper Tracker (live, weekdays)
- Shared Cost Sidewalk Program (applications open one day each January)
- 311 Service Requests dataset
Getting around
On a bike
- Report a blocked bike lane (Bike Lane Uprising)
- Active Transportation Alliance
- CDOT Bikeways Program