RatCity — Chicago Rat and Rodent Sightings Map

RatCity

4222 locations in the last 30 days (4408 reports) · Last sighting yesterday

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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
3/22/20262632 S SPAULDING AVESouth Lawndale25Completed2 daysInternetCity 311
3/22/20268634 S MAY STAuburn Gresham17Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
3/22/20264200 S WABASH AVEGrand Boulevard3Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
3/22/20268149 S EBERHART AVEChatham6Completed2 daysPhone CallCity 311
3/22/20266055 W PETERSON AVENorwood Park45Completed2 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
3/22/20262554 N MILWAUKEE AVELogan Square35Completed1 dayMobile DeviceCity 311
3/22/2026357 S CICERO AVEAustin28Completed1 dayMobile DeviceCity 311
3/22/20263231 N OTTAWA AVEDunning38Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
3/22/20261452 W ADDISON STLake View44Completed2 daysInternetCity 311
3/22/20265700 W SCHOOL STPortage Park30Completed2 daysPhone CallCity 311
3/22/2026156 N MAYFIELD AVEAustin29Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
3/22/20261144 W MONTANA STLincoln Park43Completed2 daysInternetCity 311
3/22/20261642 W 44TH STNew City15Completed2 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
3/22/20264621 S LAFLIN STNew City15Completed2 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
3/22/20264331 S ALBANY AVEBrighton Park12Completed2 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
3/22/20264220 S RICHMOND STBrighton Park12Completed2 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
3/22/20266109 S AUSTIN AVEClearing13Completed1 dayMobile DeviceCity 311
3/22/20262217 N HOYNE AVELogan Square32Completed1 dayMobile DeviceCity 311
3/22/20265424 S MOZART STGage Park14Completed2 daysPhone CallCity 311
3/22/20266341 S WESTERN AVEChicago Lawn16Completed2 daysInternetCity 311
3/22/20262149 W LELAND AVELincoln Square47Completed2 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
3/22/20265821 S NEWLAND AVEGarfield Ridge13Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
3/22/20265834 S NOTTINGHAM AVEGarfield Ridge13Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
3/22/20262241 W BELMONT AVENorth Center32Completed1 dayMobile DeviceCity 311
3/22/20261748 W ROSEHILL DREdgewater40Completed1 dayMobile DeviceCity 311
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