RatCity — Chicago Rat and Rodent Sightings Map

RatCity

4257 locations in the last 30 days (4443 reports) · Last sighting 13 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
9/18/20267935 S PERRY AVEChatham17Completed13 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
9/16/2026605 E 87TH PLChatham8Completed16 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
8/20/20268245 S DREXEL AVEChatham8Completed4 daysPhone CallCity 311
8/6/20258555 S INGLESIDE AVEChatham8Completed5 daysPhone CallCity 311
10/9/20268727 S MICHIGAN AVEChatham6Completed12 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
8/19/20268356 S DREXEL AVEChatham8Completed5 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/14/20268201 S DOBSON AVEChatham8Completed14 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
8/19/20268637 S VERNON AVEChatham6Completed12 daysPhone CallCity 311
8/13/20268045 S DR MARTIN LUTHER KING JR DRChatham6Completed11 daysPhone CallCity 311
8/5/2026501 E 79TH STChatham6Completed5 daysInternetCity 311
8/4/20268227 S WABASH AVEChatham6Completed6 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
8/4/20269137 S COTTAGE GROVE AVEChatham8Completed15 daysInternetCity 311
9/21/20267944 S INDIANA AVEChatham6Completed11 daysInternetCity 311
7/25/2025902 E 83RD STChatham8Completed11 daysInternetCity 311
7/30/2025533 E 87TH STChatham8Completed6 daysInternetCity 311
8/17/20268050 S INGLESIDE AVEChatham8Completed7 daysInternetCity 311
9/14/2026605 E 89TH PLChatham8Completed14 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/19/20268230 S ELLIS AVEChatham8Completed13 daysPhone CallCity 311
10/7/202643 E 89TH STChatham6Completed14 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/19/20268228 S ELLIS AVEChatham8Completed13 daysPhone CallCity 311
8/5/20258203 S CALUMET AVEChatham6Completed6 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/19/20268118 S ELLIS AVEChatham8Completed13 daysPhone CallCity 311
8/24/20268356 S DREXEL AVEChatham8Completed2 daysPhone CallCity 311
8/24/20267924 S EBERHART AVEChatham6Completed8 daysPhone CallCity 311
8/19/20268420 S ST LAWRENCE AVEChatham6Completed12 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
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