RatCity — Chicago Rat and Rodent Sightings Map

RatCity

4073 locations in the last 30 days (4255 reports) · Last sighting yesterday

📰 Blog
DayWeek30 DaysYear
Loading map…

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.

32080fewer → more

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
8/5/2026735 N TRUMBULL AVEHumboldt Park27Completed8 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
5/25/20263748 W HURON STHumboldt Park27Completed4 daysPhone CallCity 311
6/22/2026519 N RACINE AVEWest Town27Completed2 daysInternetCity 311
7/29/20261232 W HURON STWest Town27Completed7 daysInternetCity 311
5/12/20262126 W JACKSON BLVDNear West Side27Completed2 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/17/20261436 W CHESTNUT STWest Town27Completed11 daysInternetCity 311
8/4/20261416 W ERIE STWest Town27Completed9 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
5/31/20262154 W VAN BUREN STNear West Side27Completed5 daysInternetCity 311
8/13/20262311 W WASHINGTON BLVDNear West Side27Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
9/17/20261330 W CHESTNUT STWest Town27Completed11 daysInternetCity 311
5/13/20262242 W MONROE STNear West Side27Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
9/20/20262307 W WASHINGTON BLVDNear West Side27Completed16 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
7/19/20262938 W WILCOX STEast Garfield Park27Completed11 daysInternetCity 311
9/11/20261801 W GRAND AVEWest Town27Completed7 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
8/19/2026846 N ST LOUIS AVEHumboldt Park27Completed12 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/3/20262670 W WASHINGTON BLVDEast Garfield Park27Completed14 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
8/24/20262141 W WARREN BLVDNear West Side27Completed8 daysPhone CallCity 311
8/12/20262114 W MAYPOLE AVENear West Side27Completed13 daysPhone CallCity 311
7/29/20261232 W HURON STWest Town27Completed7 daysPhone CallCity 311
5/13/20262106 W VAN BUREN STNear West Side27Completed7 daysInternetCity 311
9/3/20262311 W WASHINGTON BLVDNear West Side27Completed14 daysPhone CallCity 311
8/12/2026512 N MAY STWest Town27Completed13 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
6/14/20262709 W ADAMS STEast Garfield Park27Completed4 daysPhone CallCity 311
7/29/20261331 W HURON STWest Town27Completed7 daysInternetCity 311
10/2/2026852 W FULTON MARKETNear West Side27Completed17 daysInternetCity 311
Page 1103 of 2,378
PreviousNext