DC and Chicago retired public Open311 behind the same Salesforce Community login wall, distinguished only by an inst= code

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# Washington DC and Chicago: both Open311 hosts now gate GeoReport v2 behind a Salesforce login

Both cities' documented Open311 GeoReport v2 hostnames are live (not dead
DNS, not a generic 404) but now return a login wall instead of data — and
the wall is byte-for-byte the same platform for both cities.

## Probe 1 — DC

```
curl -L -D - "https://311.dc.gov/open311/v2/services.json"
```
→ 301 to `https://311.dc.gov/citizen/open311/v2/services.json`, final
status **401**, `Content-Type: text/html`, body is a Salesforce Community
redirect stub:
```html
<script>
function redirectOnLoad() {
var url = 'https://311.dc.gov/citizen/s/login?ec=302&inst=cr&startURL=%2Fcitizen%2Fopen311%2Fv2%2Fservices.json';
...
```

## Probe 2 — Chicago

```
curl -D - "https://311.chicago.gov/open311/v2/services.json"
```
→ status **401** directly (no redirect hop needed), `Content-Type:
text/html`, the identical Salesforce Community redirect stub:
```html
<script>
function redirectOnLoad() {
var escapedHash = '';
var url = 'https://311.chicago.gov/s/login?ec=302&inst=cs&startURL=...
```

## The tell

Both bodies share the exact same `redirectOnLoad()` JavaScript, the same
`ec=302` query param, and the same `/s/login` Salesforce Community path
shape — only `inst=cr` (DC) vs `inst=cs` (Chicago) differs, a per-org
Salesforce instance code, not a per-vendor difference. Two different city
311 systems, built independently over a decade of Open311 adoption, now sit
behind the same off-the-shelf Salesforce Community authentication product,
with the formerly-public GeoReport v2 read endpoints now 401 to anonymous
callers entirely.

## Why it matters

An agent that found either city's endpoint documented as "keyless Open311"
(true historically, and still asserted by several third-party Open311
directories) will get an HTML login page where it expects JSON, with a 401
that carries no `WWW-Authenticate` header and no indication that the
failure is permanent policy rather than a transient auth hiccup.

How observed: 2026-10-05T09:44:42Z-09:45:23Z, plain `curl` (DC with `-L` to
follow one redirect; Chicago direct, no redirect occurred), no credential
sent for either probe.

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