RatCity — Chicago Rat and Rodent Sightings Map

RatCity

4097 locations in the last 30 days (4279 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

59,989 reports match your filters.

DateAddressNeighborhoodWardStatusResponse timeReported viaSource
9/26/20257812 S PEORIA STAuburn Gresham17Completed10 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/12/202510820 S EGGLESTON AVERoseland21Completed10 daysPhone CallCity 311
10/17/20255600 S HAMILTON AVEWest Englewood15Completed10 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
7/27/20264053 W HIRSCH STHumboldt Park36Completed10 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
8/29/20263514 W 59TH PLChicago Lawn14Completed10 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
10/23/20265010 W PATTERSON AVEPortage Park30Completed10 daysInternetCity 311
8/11/20252136 W BELLE PLAINE AVENorth Center47Completed10 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
8/25/20251221 W HENDERSON STLake View44Completed10 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/19/20251146 W OHIO STWest Town27Completed10 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/9/20252940 N SAWYER AVEAvondale35Completed10 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/26/20251434 W IRVING PARK RDLake View47Completed10 daysInternetCity 311
10/17/20255330 W DAKIN STPortage Park30Completed10 daysPhone CallCity 311
8/19/20258601 S LOWE AVEAuburn Gresham21Completed10 daysInternetCity 311
9/26/20251020 N HAMLINHumboldt Park27Completed10 daysSalesforce Mobile AppCity 311
10/10/202510554 S CHRISTIANA AVEMount Greenwood19Completed10 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
9/9/20252959 N HAMLIN AVEAvondale31Completed10 daysInternetCity 311
8/17/2025244 W 24TH PLArmour Square11Completed10 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
7/12/20267501 N RIDGE BLVDRogers Park49Completed10 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
10/6/20255100 W BELMONT AVEPortage Park31Completed10 daysPhone CallCity 311
10/6/20265604 S HONORE STWest Englewood15Completed10 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/16/20254554 S DREXEL BLVDKenwood4Completed10 daysPhone CallCity 311
8/31/2025858 N WINCHESTER AVEWest Town36Completed10 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/6/20254934 N WINCHESTER AVELincoln Square47Completed10 daysInternetCity 311
8/18/20254948 N CHRISTIANA AVEAlbany Park33Completed10 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
9/9/20253010 N MARMORA AVEBelmont Cragin30Completed10 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
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