RatCity — Chicago Rat and Rodent Sightings Map

RatCity

4159 locations in the last 30 days (4341 reports) · Last sighting 21 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

59,989 reports match your filters.

DateAddressNeighborhoodWardStatusResponse timeReported viaSource
10/9/20265057 N MERRIMAC AVEJefferson Park45Completed17 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/15/20265057 N MOBILE AVEJefferson Park45Completed16 daysPhone CallCity 311
10/5/20265057 N NEVA AVENorwood Park41Completed16 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
11/9/20265057 N TROY STAlbany Park33Open—InternetCity 311
8/5/20265058 N KEELER AVEAlbany Park39Completed12 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
6/29/20265058 W CHICAGO AVEAustin37Completed3 daysPhone CallCity 311
8/6/20255058 W CHICAGO AVEAustin37Completed13 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
10/2/20255058 W SCHOOL STPortage Park31Completed13 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/17/20255058 W SCHOOL STPortage Park31Completed8 daysPhone CallCity 311
10/23/20255058 W SCHOOL STPortage Park31Completed6 daysPhone CallCity 311
5/25/20265058 W SCHOOL STPortage Park31Completed4 daysPhone CallCity 311
2/2/20265058 W SCHOOL STPortage Park31Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
6/3/20265058 W SCHOOL STPortage Park31Completed0 daysPhone CallCity 311
4/21/20265058 W SCHOOL STPortage Park31Completed1 dayAlderman's OfficeCity 311
6/24/20265058 W SCHOOL STPortage Park31Completed7 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
4/28/20265058 W SCHUBERT AVEBelmont Cragin31Completed3 daysInternetCity 311
6/18/20265059 N MELVINA AVEJefferson Park45Completed5 daysInternetCity 311
7/8/20265059 N WESTERN AVELincoln Square40Completed7 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
8/8/20265059 S LAVERGNE AVEGarfield Ridge23Completed10 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
5/29/20265059 W 52ND STGarfield Ridge23Completed4 daysInternetCity 311
5/18/20265059 W CONGRESS PKWYAustin29Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
8/15/20265059 W CORNELIA AVEPortage Park31Completed11 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
10/30/20255059 W SUNNYSIDE AVEPortage Park45Completed5 daysInternetCity 311
4/23/20265059 W WILSON AVEPortage Park45Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
7/28/2025505 W BELDEN AVELincoln Park43Completed7 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
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