Chicago street cleaning 311 requests
Street Cleaning 311 requests filed in Chicago since January 2021.
Current release
Data through April 30, 2026
Data from January 2021 through April 30, 2026
Source data: Open data ↗
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Total Requests
118.4K
in the street cleaning category
Latest Month
1.3K
April 2026
Share of total
1.2%
of all Chicago 311 requests
Median Resolution
6.2d
half of requests close faster
Monthly street cleaning requests
How many street cleaning 311 requests Chicago residents file each month.
How this category is defined
What counts as street cleaning: Street sweeping, debris removal from public right-of-way, and litter in public spaces.
In Chicago’s raw 311 data, the following 3 service_type values are counted as street cleaning:
- Clean Vacant Lot Request
- Street Cleaning Request
- Weed Removal Request
To reproduce these counts against the raw feed
SELECT count(*)
FROM <chicago_311_raw>
WHERE service_type IN (
'Clean Vacant Lot Request',
'Street Cleaning Request',
'Weed Removal Request'
)Analyst tip: Austin uses 'ARR - Street Sweeping' (Austin Resource Recovery — the sanitation department). Calgary has both 'Roads - Debris on Street/Sidewalk/Boulevard' and 'WRS - Debris in Backlane'. NYC's 'Dirty Condition' lands here. Oakland uses 'CUT_CLEAN' and 'STREETSW'.
Source & provenance
Counts on this page are derived from Chicago’s official open 311 data feed, covering January 2021 through April 30, 2026. Category assignment uses an AI-generated mapping from the city’s raw service types to a normalized cross-city category. View the underlying dataset at data.cityofchicago.org.