RatCity — Chicago Rat and Rodent Sightings Map

RatCity

4262 locations in the last 30 days (4449 reports) · Last sighting 15 hours 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 — Nov 2–Nov 8, 2026

  • 🐀 948 new reports — down 7% from the week before
  • 👑 Lake View is Rat King with 67 reports
  • 📈 Biggest jump: Logan Square, up 15 from last week
  • 🏙️ The city took 9.7 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

59,882 reports match your filters.

DateAddressNeighborhoodWardStatusResponse timeReported viaSource
4/27/20264554 N WOLCOTT AVELincoln Square47Completed2 daysInternetCity 311
9/14/20254554 S DREXEL AVEKenwood4Completed9 daysInternetCity 311
9/16/20254554 S DREXEL BLVDKenwood4Completed10 daysPhone CallCity 311
6/4/20264554 S LAKE PARK AVEKenwood4Completed7 daysInternetCity 311
5/20/20264554 S RICHMOND STBrighton Park12Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
6/25/20264554 W DEMING PLHermosa31Completed6 daysInternetCity 311
10/30/20264554 W MARQUETTE RDWest Lawn13Completed10 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
6/6/20264555 N CENTRAL AVEPortage Park45Completed3 daysPhone CallCity 311
3/27/20264555 N CENTRAL PARKAlbany Park33Completed3 daysSalesforce Mobile AppCity 311
6/25/20264555 S KEELER AVEArcher Heights14Completed5 daysPhone CallCity 311
8/5/20254555 W PARKER AVEHermosa31Completed13 daysPhone CallCity 311
1/9/20264555 W WELLINGTON AVEHermosa31Completed4 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
9/20/20264556 N AVERS AVEAlbany Park33Completed15 daysInternetCity 311
9/3/20254556 N DOVER STUptown46Completed8 daysInternetCity 311
6/11/20264556 N MAGNOLIA AVEUptown46Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
8/2/20254556 N MAGNOLIA AVEUptown46Completed12 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
3/31/20264556 S MARSHFIELD AVENew City15Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
11/14/20254556 S SPRINGFIELD AVEArcher Heights14Completed3 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
7/12/20264556 S SPRINGFIELD AVEArcher Heights14Completed5 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
8/19/20254556 W DEMING PLHermosa31Completed16 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
6/19/20264556 W DEMING PLHermosa31Completed5 daysPhone CallCity 311
4/8/20264556 W WELLINGTON AVEHermosa31Completed2 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
8/5/20264556 W WELLINGTON AVEHermosa31Completed14 daysInternetCity 311
7/25/20254557 S HERMITAGE AVENew City15Completed12 daysInternetCity 311
9/8/20254557 S WABASH AVEGrand Boulevard3Completed10 daysPhone CallCity 311
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