RatCity — Chicago Rat and Rodent Sightings Map

RatCity

4090 locations in the last 30 days (4274 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
6/17/20261850 W THOME AVEWest Ridge40Completed5 daysInternetCity 311
10/24/20256469 S LONG AVEClearing13Completed5 daysInternetCity 311
6/11/20262626 N MERRIMAC AVEBelmont Cragin36Completed5 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
6/10/20265316 N LUDLAM AVEJefferson Park45Completed5 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
10/30/20268439 S HOYNE AVEAuburn Gresham18Completed5 daysInternetCity 311
10/18/20253725 W 63RD PLWest Lawn23Completed5 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
8/15/20251455 N NORTH PARK AVENear North Side2Completed5 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/28/20251517 W OLIVE AVEEdgewater48Completed5 daysPhone CallCity 311
10/23/20251012 W 19TH STLower West Side25Completed5 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
6/20/20261846 S KEDZIE AVENorth Lawndale24Completed5 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
7/10/20265411 N CAMPBELL AVELincoln Square40Completed5 daysInternetCity 311
8/28/20254024 N MEADE AVEPortage Park38Completed5 daysInternetCity 311
7/29/20261641 W MARQUETTE RDWest Englewood16Completed5 daysPhone CallCity 311
7/5/20264717 N SAWYER AVEAlbany Park33Completed5 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
8/23/20254737 S HERMITAGE AVENew City15Completed5 daysInternetCity 311
7/5/20264712 N KEDZIE AVEAlbany Park33Completed5 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
7/10/20262453 W BALMORAL AVELincoln Square40Completed5 daysPhone CallCity 311
11/25/20251317 W 31ST STBridgeport11Completed5 daysInternetCity 311
5/14/20268605 S WABASH AVEChatham6Completed5 daysInternetCity 311
10/28/20251454 W IRVING PARK RDLake View47Completed5 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
11/11/20252538 N DRAKE AVELogan Square35Completed5 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
6/17/2026528 W SURF STLake View44Completed5 daysInternetCity 311
10/9/20251725 W CATALPA AVEEdgewater40Completed5 daysInternetCity 311
7/18/20269233 S HOYNE AVEBeverly19Completed5 daysInternetCity 311
10/24/20253144 N LAKE SHORE DR SBLake View44Completed5 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
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