Chicago street lights & signals 311 requests
How many 311 requests in the street lights & signals category residents of Chicago have filed since January 2021.
Current release
Data through March 2026
Data from January 2021 through March 2026
Total Requests
337.1K
in the street lights & signals category
Latest Month
7.1K
March 2026
Share of total
3.6%
of all Chicago 311 requests
Median Resolution
1.9d
half of requests close faster
Monthly street lights & signals requests
How many street lights & signals 311 requests Chicago residents file each month.
How this category is extracted
What counts as street lights & signals: Broken street lights, outages, damaged signs, and malfunctioning traffic signals or pedestrian crossings.
In Chicago’s raw 311 feed, the following 2 service_type values roll into street lights & signals:
- Street Light Out Complaint
- Traffic Signal Out Complaint
To reproduce these counts against the raw feed
SELECT count(*)
FROM <chicago_311_raw>
WHERE service_type IN (
'Street Light Out Complaint',
'Traffic Signal Out Complaint'
)Analyst tip: Austin splits street lights ('AE Street Light Issue - Address') from traffic signals ('TPW - Traffic Signal - Maintenance') and signs ('TPW - Traffic Sign Maintenance'). Calgary uses the 'Roads -' prefix for all three. Oakland uses the terse 'ELECTRICAL' and 'TRAFFIC_ENGIN' abbreviations.
See how street lights & signals is defined for every tracked city →
Source & provenance
Counts on this page are derived from Chicago’s official open 311 data feed, covering January 2021 through March 2026. Category assignment uses a hand-curated mapping from the city’s raw service types to a normalized cross-city category. View the underlying dataset at data.cityofchicago.org.