RatCity — Chicago Rat and Rodent Sightings Map

RatCity

4202 locations in the last 30 days (4386 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
3/24/20264421 N WINCHESTER AVELincoln Square47Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
3/24/20261200 W CHASE AVERogers Park49Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
3/24/20265417 S NEWLAND AVEGarfield Ridge23Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
3/24/20262951 W WALTON STWest Town36Completed2 daysInternetCity 311
3/24/20264445 S LOWE AVENew City15Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
3/24/20261037 N LARAMIE AVEAustin37Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
3/24/20264424 N MAPLEWOOD AVELincoln Square47Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
3/24/20262526 W FITCH AVEWest Ridge50Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
3/24/20265009 W WABANSIA AVEAustin37Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
3/24/20262624 N MONTICELLO AVELogan Square35Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
3/24/20264317 N MARMORA AVEPortage Park38Completed2 daysPhone CallCity 311
3/24/20264815 N MCVICKER AVEJefferson Park45Completed1 dayMobile DeviceCity 311
3/24/20268800 S CARPENTER STAuburn Gresham21Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
3/24/20261229 S AVERS AVENorth Lawndale24Completed2 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
3/24/20265148 W ROSCOE STPortage Park31Completed3 daysPhone CallCity 311
3/24/20261453 W AUGUSTA BLVDWest Town1Completed2 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
3/24/20263924 N JANSSEN AVELake View46Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
3/24/20261938 W 21ST PLLower West Side25Completed2 daysPhone CallCity 311
3/24/202612900 S COMMERCIAL AVEHegewisch10Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
3/24/20264818 N BELL AVELincoln Square47Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
3/24/20265137 W NEWPORT AVEPortage Park31Completed3 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
3/24/20265731 W HENDERSON STPortage Park30Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
3/24/20265502 N MASON AVEJefferson Park45Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
3/24/20262057 W CERMAKLower West Side25Completed2 daysSalesforce Mobile AppCity 311
3/24/20265111 S LUNA AVEGarfield Ridge23Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
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