RatCity — Chicago Rat and Rodent Sightings Map

RatCity

4263 locations in the last 30 days (4449 reports) · Last sighting 21 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
8/13/20262142 W CERMAK RDLower West Side25Completed5 daysPhone CallCity 311
10/3/2025737 N NOBLE STWest Town27Completed5 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
7/31/20253319 N SEMINARY AVELake View44Completed5 daysInternetCity 311
7/15/20261846 W PERSHING RDMcKinley Park12Completed5 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
4/29/20264915 W GUNNISON STForest Glen45Completed5 daysInternetCity 311
6/10/20262658 W BALMORAL AVELincoln Square40Completed5 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
10/31/20255222 N MOODY AVEJefferson Park45Completed5 daysPhone CallCity 311
6/12/20266413 N NEWGARD AVERogers Park49Completed5 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
7/24/20262663 W PERSHING RDBrighton Park12Completed5 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
8/6/20253216 S CANAL STBridgeport11Completed5 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
8/13/2025814 W BUCKINGHAM PLLake View44Completed5 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
4/22/20261843 N HOWE STLincoln Park43Completed5 daysInternetCity 311
6/26/20262525 N MANGO AVEBelmont Cragin30Completed5 daysInternetCity 311
10/25/202510329 S ALBANY AVEMount Greenwood19Completed5 daysInternetCity 311
8/1/20255833 N MARKHAM AVEJefferson Park45Completed5 daysInternetCity 311
6/21/20263432 W 83RD STAshburn18Completed5 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
3/6/20264726 S ST LAWRENCE AVEGrand Boulevard3Completed5 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
6/10/20267020 N GREENVIEW AVERogers Park49Completed5 daysInternetCity 311
7/30/2026561 W CORNELIA AVELake View46Completed5 daysInternetCity 311
5/6/20262727 N KENMORE AVELincoln Park43Completed5 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
5/6/20265200 S PARKSIDE AVEGarfield Ridge23Completed5 daysPhone CallCity 311
10/22/20251939 N LA CROSSE AVEBelmont Cragin36Completed5 daysInternetCity 311
2/27/20262903 W 25TH STSouth Lawndale24Completed5 daysInternetCity 311
5/6/20262727 N KENMORE AVELincoln Park43Completed5 daysInternetCity 311
6/25/20262515 N ROCKWELL STLogan Square1Completed5 daysPhone CallCity 311
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