RatCity — Chicago Rat and Rodent Sightings Map

RatCity

4232 locations in the last 30 days (4418 reports) · Last sighting 23 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
3/19/20262422 N CLYBOURN AVELincoln Park32Completed1 dayMobile DeviceCity 311
3/19/20266010 S MENARD AVEClearing13Completed1 dayAlderman's OfficeCity 311
3/19/20264720 S ST LAWRENCE AVEGrand Boulevard3Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
3/19/20266014 N ROCKWELL STWest Ridge40Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
3/19/20265937 S HONORE STWest Englewood15Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
3/19/20261745 N KEDZIE AVEHumboldt Park26Completed1 dayMobile DeviceCity 311
3/19/20263920 N CALIFORNIA AVEIrving Park35Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
3/19/20261354 W TOUHY AVERogers Park49Completed1 dayMobile DeviceCity 311
3/19/20265440 S NEWCASTLE AVEGarfield Ridge23Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
3/19/20265105 W CRYSTAL STAustin37Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
3/19/20263250 W HOLLYWOOD AVENorth Park39Completed1 dayMobile DeviceCity 311
3/19/20262304 N MONITOR AVEBelmont Cragin36Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
3/19/20262217 W ROSCOE STNorth Center32Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
3/19/20263827 W GRENSHAW STNorth Lawndale24Completed4 daysPhone CallCity 311
3/19/20263327 W 59TH PLChicago Lawn14Completed1 dayMobile DeviceCity 311
3/19/20264037 W HARRISON STWest Garfield Park24Completed4 daysInternetCity 311
3/19/20266311 N OAKLEY AVEWest Ridge50Completed1 dayMobile DeviceCity 311
3/19/20263616 N SEELEY AVENorth Center47Completed1 dayMobile DeviceCity 311
3/19/20263938 W 56TH PLWest Elsdon23Completed0 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
3/19/20265021 S PRAIRIE AVEGrand Boulevard3Completed0 daysInternetCity 311
3/19/20265015 S PRAIRIE AVEGrand Boulevard3Completed0 daysInternetCity 311
3/19/20265023 S PRAIRIE AVEGrand Boulevard3Completed0 daysInternetCity 311
3/19/20264448 N LINDER AVEPortage Park45Completed0 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
3/19/20262030 W 23RD STLower West Side25Completed0 daysInternetCity 311
3/19/20262036 W 23RD STLower West Side25Completed0 daysInternetCity 311
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