RatCity — Chicago Rat and Rodent Sightings Map

RatCity

4110 locations in the last 30 days (4290 reports) · Last sighting 20 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
5/12/20264345 N MONITOR AVEPortage Park38Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
6/11/20263754 N NOTTINGHAM AVEDunning38Completed4 daysInternetCity 311
6/15/20263754 N NOTTINGHAM AVEDunning38Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
6/15/20263907 N NORDICA AVEDunning38Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
6/10/20263859 N NORDICA AVEDunning38Completed6 daysInternetCity 311
10/29/20255335 W CULLOM AVEPortage Park38Completed2 daysInternetCity 311
5/12/20264137 N MARMORA AVEPortage Park38Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
6/11/20266240 W WAVELAND AVEDunning38Completed5 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
6/12/20263719 N PONTIAC AVEDunning38Completed4 daysPhone CallCity 311
10/7/20253854 N PLAINFIELD AVEDunning38Completed10 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
10/7/20254335 N MOODY AVEPortage Park38Completed10 daysInternetCity 311
6/10/20264337 N MELVINA AVEPortage Park38Completed6 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
6/10/20265401 W CULLOM AVEPortage Park38Completed6 daysInternetCity 311
6/15/20264434 N MEADE AVEPortage Park38Completed1 dayAlderman's OfficeCity 311
2/11/20267624 W SCHOOL STDunning38Completed1 dayMobile DeviceCity 311
6/13/20263918 N PANAMA AVEDunning38Completed3 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
6/12/20263600 N OCTAVIA AVEDunning38Completed4 daysPhone CallCity 311
10/6/20254110 N MEADE AVEPortage Park38Completed11 daysInternetCity 311
10/6/20255214 W WARNER AVEPortage Park38Completed11 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
6/8/20263342 N NEENAH AVEDunning38Completed8 daysInternetCity 311
7/9/20263441 N OTTAWA AVEDunning38Completed11 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
6/13/20265331W W BELLE PLAINE AVEPortage Park38Completed3 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
6/15/20267859 W ADDISON STDunning38Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
6/15/20268238 W FOREST PRESERVE AVEDunning38Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
10/20/20255720 W DAKIN STPortage Park38Completed7 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
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