RatCity — Chicago Rat and Rodent Sightings Map

RatCity

4191 locations in the last 30 days (4371 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 — 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
8/31/20253844 N CLARK STLake View44Completed9 daysInternetCity 311
10/14/20253717 N WAYNE AVELake View44Completed9 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/29/20255933 S ROCKWELL STChicago Lawn16Completed9 daysPhone CallCity 311
10/12/20256734 S MARSHFIELD AVEWest Englewood16Completed9 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/27/20262912 N FRANCISCO AVEAvondale35Completed9 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/5/20263019 N OAK PARK AVEMontclare36Completed9 daysInternetCity 311
9/21/20261928 W 35TH STMcKinley Park12Completed9 daysInternetCity 311
9/22/20257133 N DAMEN AVERogers Park49Completed9 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/3/20252325 N MOODY AVEBelmont Cragin36Completed9 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
7/6/20266235 N TRIPP AVEForest Glen39Completed9 daysPhone CallCity 311
10/5/20251722 W JARVIS AVERogers Park49Completed9 daysInternetCity 311
9/7/20263601 W 70TH PLWest Lawn23Completed9 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
7/8/2026839 E 52ND STHyde Park20Completed9 daysPhone CallCity 311
7/21/20265408 N ARTESIAN AVELincoln Square40Completed9 daysInternetCity 311
9/3/20256624 S SACRAMENTO AVEChicago Lawn15Completed9 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
6/28/20265231 W NEWPORT AVEPortage Park31Completed9 daysInternetCity 311
9/24/20254335 N MOODY AVEPortage Park38Completed9 daysInternetCity 311
8/19/20255419 N ARTESIAN AVELincoln Square40Completed9 daysInternetCity 311
10/27/20265648 S MEADE AVEGarfield Ridge13Completed9 daysInternetCity 311
7/4/20266645 S RICHMOND STChicago Lawn15Completed9 daysInternetCity 311
7/26/20264649 N KENMORE AVEUptown46Completed9 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
10/6/20256055 S PARKSIDE AVEClearing13Completed9 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
7/29/20252636 W 23RD PLSouth Lawndale25Completed9 daysInternetCity 311
9/1/20254501 N KNOX AVEIrving Park39Completed9 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
7/7/20264441 S HONORE STNew City15Completed9 daysPhone CallCity 311
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