Elevator outages in Chicago
Chicago's stock of residential towers, Loop office buildings, and CTA rail stations all rely on working elevators. Elevator Uptime tracks every indexed building's outage history in a public, searchable record. Report a broken elevator in 15 seconds. No account, no email.
Outage history — last 12 months
6 recorded outages across tracked Chicago buildings. Record begins April 2026.
Each bar counts outages by the month they began, drawn from regulatory records and live-feed archives. A month with no bar had no recorded outages in our data — not necessarily zero real outages.
Affected buildings
Elevator outages in Chicago
The Chicago Residential Landlord and Tenant Ordinance (RLTO, Municipal Code §5-12) requires landlords to maintain elevator service in buildings where tenants rely on it, with remedies including rent withholding and repair-and-deduct when landlords fail to repair. Elevator inspections in Chicago are administered by the Department of Buildings, which maintains public records of inspection history.
Transit coverage is anchored by the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA). The agency publishes live elevator status for every rail station with accessible routes at transitchicago.com/alerts/elevators. Outages at CTA stations are added to the public record here the moment they appear on the agency feed.
How to report a broken elevator in Chicago
- Residential tenants: City of Chicago 311 for Department of Buildings enforcement
- Commercial buildings: Department of Buildings, or the Chicago Elevator Bureau
- CTA stations: CTA elevator and accessibility status, or the CTA customer service line
- Any building, public record: file an outage on Elevator Uptime in 15 seconds
For the full reporting guide, see how to report a broken elevator.