RatCity — Chicago Rat and Rodent Sightings Map

RatCity

4061 locations in the last 30 days (4239 reports) · Last sighting 24 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

60,097 reports match your filters.

DateAddressNeighborhoodWardStatusResponse timeReported viaSource
6/15/20265407 W CORTEZ STAustin37Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
11/4/20255408 N ARTESIAN AVELincoln Square40Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
7/21/20265408 N ARTESIAN AVELincoln Square40Completed9 daysInternetCity 311
6/4/20265408 N MENARD AVEJefferson Park45Completed4 daysPhone CallCity 311
8/20/20255408 N MENARD AVEJefferson Park45Completed13 daysPhone CallCity 311
7/6/20265408 N NAGLE AVENorwood Park41Completed8 daysPhone CallCity 311
5/11/20265408 N NAGLE AVENorwood Park41Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
3/28/20265408 S FAIRFIELD AVEGage Park14Completed3 daysInternetCity 311
9/25/20255408 S KENNETH AVEWest Elsdon23Completed7 daysPhone CallCity 311
10/14/20255408 S KENNETH AVEWest Elsdon23Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
1/21/20265408 S LAFLIN STNew City16Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
10/16/20255408 S LAFLIN STNew City16Completed7 daysPhone CallCity 311
12/18/20255408 S LAFLIN STNew City16Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
7/21/20255408 S MILLARD AVEWest Elsdon23Completed13 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/23/20255408 W GLADYS AVEAustin29Completed9 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
10/29/20265409 S BISHOP STNew City20Completed7 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
7/14/20265409 S CARPENTER STNew City16Completed7 daysPhone CallCity 311
3/5/20265409 S LOCKWOOD AVEGarfield Ridge23Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
5/6/20265409 S LOTUS AVEGarfield Ridge23Completed5 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
8/5/20265409 S NORDICA AVEGarfield Ridge23Completed12 daysInternetCity 311
6/20/20265409 S NORDICA AVEGarfield Ridge23Completed2 daysInternetCity 311
2/26/20265409 S RICHMOND STGage Park14Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
8/9/2025540 E 44TH STGrand Boulevard4Completed3 daysPhone CallCity 311
4/10/2026540 N AVERS AVEHumboldt Park37Completed4 daysPhone CallCity 311
10/19/2026540 N ST CLAIR STNear North Side42Completed3 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
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