RatCity — Chicago Rat and Rodent Sightings Map

RatCity

4048 locations in the last 30 days (4228 reports) · Last sighting 2 days ago

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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
9/22/2025913 S MONITOR AVEAustin29Completed10 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
12/29/20251745 N MENARDAustin29Completed1 daySalesforce Mobile AppCity 311
10/1/20251120 N CENTRAL AVEAustin29Completed7 daysInternetCity 311
4/26/20265568 W GLADYS AVEAustin29Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
8/11/20257355 W BARRY AVEDunning29Completed14 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
4/27/20265422 W FLOURNOY STAustin29Completed0 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
12/29/20255730 W ERIE STAustin29Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
8/22/20252237 N NEVA AVEAustin29Completed12 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
10/26/2026136 S MAYFIELD AVEAustin29Completed10 daysInternetCity 311
8/16/20252839 N MONT CLARE AVEMontclare29Completed9 daysInternetCity 311
10/31/20263114 N ODELL AVEDunning29Completed6 daysInternetCity 311
10/16/20267424 W BELMONT AVEDunning29Completed7 daysInternetCity 311
10/26/20265311 W JACKSON BLVDAustin29Completed10 daysPhone CallCity 311
5/4/20261351 N AUSTIN BLVDAustin29Completed2 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/30/202531 N MENARD AVEAustin29Completed2 daysPhone CallCity 311
5/4/20261717 N NARRAGANSETT AVEAustin29Completed2 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
5/4/20261714 N MANGO AVEAustin29Completed2 daysPhone CallCity 311
10/14/20265739 W IOWA STAustin29Completed9 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/26/20251705 N MENARDAustin29Completed6 daysSalesforce Mobile AppCity 311
9/26/20251657 N MONITOR AVEAustin29Completed6 daysPhone CallCity 311
12/9/20255969 W ERIE STAustin29Completed1 dayMobile DeviceCity 311
10/13/2026219 S LOTUS AVEAustin29Completed9 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
10/9/20265330 W QUINCY STAustin29Completed14 daysPhone CallCity 311
12/9/2025156 N MAYFIELD AVEAustin29Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
8/12/20255822 W LAKE STAustin29Completed15 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
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