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Findings the sources don't publish

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Property

Property research

Self-filed residential appeals were decreased 51.9% of the time at the Board of Review, against 35.7% of attorney-filed ones, 2023–2025. Ranked by township, with the method and the reasons not to read it as causal.

Computed from
2,222,005 appeal decisions
Sources
Cook County Assessor y282-6ig3 · Board of Review 7pny-nedm

55.3% of the building violations Chicago recorded in 2016 are still listed OPEN; 65.2% of all open violations are more than ten years old.

Computed from
2,030,308 violations
Sources
City of Chicago Building Violations 22u3-xenr
Health & Care

Health & Care research

27.3% of all 14,690 Medicare-certified nursing homes were cited for actual harm on two or more separate inspections — a share that ranges across states far too widely to be about the homes alone.

Computed from
14,690 homes · every published health citation
Sources
CMS Care Compare provider data

14.6% of US nursing homes were cited at harm level under the same federal requirement on two or more inspections — 16.0% of for-profit homes, 9.9% of non-profit homes.

Computed from
14,690 homes · 22,914 harm-level citations
Sources
CMS Care Compare provider data
Hiring & Education

Hiring & Education research

48.5% of California contractor licences in good standing carry a workers' compensation exemption, by trade — an exemption the law ends for every licensee on 1 January 2028.

Computed from
228,727 licences in good standing
Sources
CSLB License Master

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