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Search the city's impound inventory by plate. If it's here, you'll see which pound has it, who to call, and how long it has been sitting.
This is an inventory, not a log: a vehicle drops off the list when its owner collects it. So the older days are thinner not because fewer cars were towed, but because most of those cars have gone home. Weekends are shaded.
Share of the cars still held, by the weekday they were towed.
The paint chip is our rendering of the city's colour code.
Grouped from the make on the record.
A spread of the 38 vehicles logged on Mon, October 12: the city records a tow date, not a time, so vehicles towed the same day can't be put in order.
877 of the vehicles being held carry a plate from somewhere else — most often Indiana.
Cars the city moved down the street for construction, street cleaning or an event. No pound, no release fee — but no note left behind either.
The city publishes the vehicles it is currently holding — roughly the last 90 days — and updates the list several times a day. It is an inventory, not a history: a vehicle leaves the list when its owner collects it, so counts by date describe what is still held, not how many cars were towed that day.
Source: Towed Vehicles and Relocated Vehicles — Chicago Data Portal. Inventory read Tue, October 13. Open the raw dataset in the Explorer.
Sunday20% of cars held
5 pounds
Two lots hold 96% of every car in the inventory.
4,013cars moved a block or two for works or events — no pound, no fee
