Chicago trees & parks 311 requests
How many 311 requests in the trees & parks category residents of Chicago have filed since January 2021.
Current release
Data through March 2026
Data from January 2021 through March 2026
Total Requests
531.4K
in the trees & parks category
Latest Month
11.9K
March 2026
Share of total
5.7%
of all Chicago 311 requests
Median Resolution
7.3d
half of requests close faster
Monthly trees & parks requests
How many trees & parks 311 requests Chicago residents file each month.
How this category is extracted
What counts as trees & parks: Tree trimming and removal, downed limbs, park maintenance, and urban forestry concerns.
In Chicago’s raw 311 feed, the following 4 service_type values roll into trees & parks:
- Tree Debris Clean-Up Request
- Tree Emergency
- Tree Removal Inspection
- Tree Trim Request (NO LONGER BEING ACCEPTED)
To reproduce these counts against the raw feed
SELECT count(*)
FROM <chicago_311_raw>
WHERE service_type IN (
'Tree Debris Clean-Up Request',
'Tree Emergency',
'Tree Removal Inspection',
'Tree Trim Request (NO LONGER BEING ACCEPTED)'
)Analyst tip: Chicago has the richest split: 'Tree Debris Clean-Up Request', 'Tree Emergency', 'Tree Removal Inspection', and the retired 'Tree Trim Request (NO LONGER BEING ACCEPTED)' — if you're computing historical Chicago tree-trim counts, note the cutoff date. Calgary uses 'Parks - Tree Concern - GIS'. New Orleans and Somerville lump trees together with parks under 'Parks & Parkways' / 'Parks & Playgrounds'.
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.