RatCity — Chicago Rat and Rodent Sightings Map

RatCity

4282 locations in the last 30 days (4468 reports) · Last sighting 19 hours ago

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What am I looking at?

Each circle is a Chicago neighborhood. The number is its report count — click one to zoom in and see individual sightings there.

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Colors are relative to what’s currently on screen, so they adjust as you switch time ranges.

Zoomed into a neighborhood or zip? Same colors group nearby reports, and a bright dot means that exact spot’s been reported more than once.

📰 This week’s rat recap

Weekly Rat Trends — Oct 26–Nov 1, 2026

  • 🐀 1,021 new reports — down 9% from the week before
  • 👑 Lake View is Rat King with 70 reports
  • 📈 Biggest jump: Lincoln Park, up 15 from last week
  • 🏙️ The city took 11.2 days on average to resolve a complaint
Read the full recap →

Why Chicago keeps score on its rats

Chicago has topped national rankings of the rattiest U.S. cities for over a decade running — a reputation the city itself takes seriously enough to run one of the country’s most active 311 rodent-complaint programs. Every baiting request, burrow report, and complaint filed with the city becomes a public record. RatCity turns that record, plus reports from people who live here, into a map you can actually use: is this block bad? Is it getting worse? Which neighborhood is winning (or losing) the fight this month?

What’s actually on the map

Most of the data is Chicago’s own — every “Rodent Baiting/Rat Complaint” filed through 311, pulled in automatically once a day so the map never goes stale. Layered on top are sightings reported directly by visitors, matched to the same neighborhood and zip-code boundaries the city uses, so a resident’s report and an official 311 complaint carry equal weight on the map.

Reading the map

Circles are sized and colored by how many reports a neighborhood has racked up — blue is quiet, red means trouble. The Day / Week / 30 Days / Year toggle up top changes the window, so you can see whether a neighborhood’s rat problem is a one-week blip or a year-long trend. Whoever’s in the lead gets crowned the neighborhood Rat King in the sidebar, a title that changes hands as new reports come in.

Noticed a rat that isn’t on the map yet? Use “Report a sighting” above — it takes under a minute and goes live as soon as it’s reviewed. Curious about where the data actually comes from or how reports are moderated? See the About page for the full breakdown.

Want more? The blog has weekly trend recaps and guides on Chicago’s rat problem and how to keep it out of your home.

Browse every sighting

59,354 reports match your filters.

DateAddressNeighborhoodWardStatusResponse timeReported viaSource
3/11/20264634 W GRACE STPortage Park45Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
3/11/20265210 S DREXEL AVEHyde Park20Completed5 daysPhone CallCity 311
3/11/2026943 N FAIRFIELD AVEWest Town36Completed2 daysPhone CallCity 311
3/11/20264109 N LEAMINGTON AVEPortage Park38Completed1 dayMobile DeviceCity 311
3/11/20265850 N MULLIGAN AVENorwood Park45Completed1 dayAlderman's OfficeCity 311
3/11/20263811 N PLAINFIELD AVEDunning38Completed2 daysPhone CallCity 311
3/11/20262150 W IRVING PARK RDNorth Center47Completed2 daysInternetCity 311
3/11/20264047 N MOODY AVEPortage Park38Completed1 dayAlderman's OfficeCity 311
3/11/20261016 N DEARBORN STNear North Side2Completed2 daysPhone CallCity 311
3/11/20262130 N KEDZIE AVELogan Square35Completed2 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
3/11/20268343 S SEELEY AVEAuburn Gresham18Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
3/11/20261813 N LAWNDALE AVELogan Square26Completed2 daysInternetCity 311
3/11/20262310 N KEATING AVEBelmont Cragin31Completed5 daysPhone CallCity 311
3/11/20261914 W 79TH STAuburn Gresham17Completed5 daysPhone CallCity 311
3/11/20261633 E 67TH STSouth Shore5Completed2 daysPhone CallCity 311
3/11/20266036 N WINTHROP AVEEdgewater48Completed2 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
3/11/20263101 N HAUSSEN CTAvondale31Completed5 daysInternetCity 311
3/11/2026841 W LAWRENCE AVEUptown46Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
3/11/20262705 W CARMEN AVELincoln Square40Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
3/11/20263938 W 111TH STMount Greenwood19Completed1 dayAlderman's OfficeCity 311
3/11/20262758 W PETERSON AVEWest Ridge50Completed6 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
3/11/20263235 W OLIVE AVENorth Park39Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
3/11/20265725 S ELIZABETH STWest Englewood16Completed5 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
3/11/2026901 N HARDING AVEHumboldt Park37Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
3/11/2026959 N HARDING AVEHumboldt Park37Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
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