RatCity — Chicago Rat and Rodent Sightings Map

RatCity

4101 locations in the last 30 days (4285 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

59,447 reports match your filters.

DateAddressNeighborhoodWardStatusResponse timeReported viaSource
8/28/20261729 N KEYSTONE AVEHumboldt Park26Completed13 daysPhone CallCity 311
10/5/20263331 W LE MOYNE STHumboldt Park26Completed16 daysInternetCity 311
8/26/20251619 N TALMAN AVEWest Town26Completed10 daysPhone CallCity 311
12/28/20252620 W POTOMAC AVEWest Town26Completed0 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
8/21/20251645 N ALBANY AVEHumboldt Park26Completed12 daysInternetCity 311
1/2/20261928 N SAWYER AVELogan Square26Completed3 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/15/20253009 W ARMITAGE AVELogan Square26Completed11 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
10/26/20261951 N HUMBOLDT BLVDLogan Square26Completed8 daysInternetCity 311
7/2/20261828 N KARLOV AVEHermosa26Completed6 daysInternetCity 311
4/3/20263421 W ARMITAGE AVELogan Square26Completed3 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
8/25/20252740 W AUGUSTA BLVDWest Town26Completed11 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
4/12/20261855 N KEYSTONE AVEHermosa26Completed1 dayMobile DeviceCity 311
4/4/20261554 N TALMAN AVEWest Town26Completed2 daysInternetCity 311
3/9/20262023 N LECLAIRE AVEBelmont Cragin26Completed2 daysInternetCity 311
10/1/20252155 N LATROBE AVEBelmont Cragin26Completed7 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
4/6/20262059 N LA CROSSE AVEBelmont Cragin26Completed2 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
8/30/20253429 W NORTH AVEHumboldt Park26Completed11 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/23/20251929 N HARDING AVEHermosa26Completed10 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/23/20251117 N SACRAMENTO AVEWest Town26Completed8 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
11/6/20252212 N KEATING AVEBelmont Cragin26Completed7 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
10/6/20252251 N LAMON AVEBelmont Cragin26Completed2 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/30/20252219 N LAMON AVEBelmont Cragin26Completed8 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/30/20253308 W HURON STHumboldt Park27Completed8 daysPhone CallCity 311
8/19/2025723 N ADA STWest Town27Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
3/10/2026102 S CALIFORNIA AVEEast Garfield Park27Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
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