RatCity — Chicago Rat and Rodent Sightings Map

RatCity

4036 locations in the last 30 days (4216 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
5/13/20261529 N WASHTENAW AVEWest Town26Completed6 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
6/4/20264914 N ROCKWELL STLincoln Square40Completed6 daysInternetCity 311
9/2/20251158 W 20TH PLLower West Side25Completed6 daysInternetCity 311
10/16/2025309 N MENARD AVEAustin29Completed6 daysInternetCity 311
10/25/20254521 W MONTANA STHermosa31Completed6 daysInternetCity 311
10/21/20253342 N OSAGEDunning38Completed6 daysSalesforce Mobile AppCity 311
8/6/20254039 N SOUTHPORT AVELake View46Completed6 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
8/27/20256320 S TRIPP AVEWest Lawn13Completed6 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
8/12/20251713 S ASHLAND AVELower West Side25Completed6 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
8/4/2026514 W 72ND STEnglewood6Completed6 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/3/20267400 S PAXTON AVESouth Shore7Completed6 daysPhone CallCity 311
10/21/20255143 S MCVICKER AVEGarfield Ridge23Completed6 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
3/17/20262554 S WASHTENAW AVESouth Lawndale24Completed6 daysPhone CallCity 311
8/15/20251211 S INDEPENDENCE BLVDNorth Lawndale24Completed6 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
8/28/202611221 S ST LOUIS AVEMount Greenwood19Completed6 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
9/30/20253900 N OAKLEY AVENorth Center47Completed6 daysPhone CallCity 311
10/3/20257640 S ABERDEEN STAuburn Gresham17Completed6 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
7/30/20269711 S SANGAMON STWashington Heights21Completed6 daysInternetCity 311
8/21/2025200 N LECLAIRE AVEAustin28Completed6 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
9/24/2025978 W 18TH PLLower West Side25Completed6 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
7/29/20255100 N LOTUS AVEJefferson Park45Completed6 daysInternetCity 311
10/14/20251708 N LAKE SHORE DR SBLincoln Park43Completed6 daysInternetCity 311
10/2/20252042 W MAYPOLE AVENear West Side27Completed6 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/17/20251735 N MENARD AVEAustin29Completed6 daysPhone CallCity 311
7/17/20262731 W FITCH AVEWest Ridge50Completed6 daysPhone CallCity 311
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