RatCity — Chicago Rat and Rodent Sightings Map

RatCity

4184 locations in the last 30 days (4370 reports) · Last sighting 18 hours ago

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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

59,447 reports match your filters.

DateAddressNeighborhoodWardStatusResponse timeReported viaSource
6/4/20265040 W STRONGJefferson Park45Completed5 daysSalesforce Mobile AppCity 311
6/4/20265431 N LINDER AVEJefferson Park45Completed5 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
5/21/20263906 N TROY STIrving Park33Completed5 daysPhone CallCity 311
11/7/20252446 W 54TH STGage Park14Completed5 daysPhone CallCity 311
6/18/20263534 N RETA AVELake View44Completed5 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
11/21/20252258 W 35TH STMcKinley Park12Completed5 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/30/2026235 W EUGENIE STLincoln Park2Completed5 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
3/11/20262310 N KEATING AVEBelmont Cragin31Completed5 daysPhone CallCity 311
5/23/20264554 N MCVICKER AVEPortage Park38Completed5 daysPhone CallCity 311
5/29/20263539 W 12TH PLNorth Lawndale24Completed5 daysInternetCity 311
8/29/20267900 S WOODLAWN AVEGreater Grand Crossing8Completed5 daysInternetCity 311
7/9/20268024 S MARYLAND AVEChatham8Completed5 daysInternetCity 311
2/27/20262537 N SEMINARY AVELincoln Park43Completed5 daysInternetCity 311
10/19/20255558 W EDMUNDS STJefferson Park45Completed5 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
10/23/20251500 N KEYSTONE AVEHumboldt Park26Completed5 daysPhone CallCity 311
3/7/20264623 N BEACON STUptown46Completed5 daysInternetCity 311
9/10/2025800 W LILL AVELincoln Park43Completed5 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
6/17/20265052 W FULTON STAustin28Completed5 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
6/5/20265332 W PARKER AVEBelmont Cragin31Completed5 daysInternetCity 311
6/4/2026143 E 117TH PLWest Pullman9Completed5 daysPhone CallCity 311
5/21/20262121 N MANGO AVEBelmont Cragin36Completed5 daysPhone CallCity 311
11/27/20255953 W 63RD STClearing13Completed5 daysPhone CallCity 311
6/10/20261650 N LOTUS AVEAustin37Completed5 daysPhone CallCity 311
6/25/20265248 S NEENAH AVEGarfield Ridge23Completed5 daysPhone CallCity 311
8/14/202511200 S AVENUE OEast Side10Completed5 daysPhone CallCity 311
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