RatCity — Chicago Rat and Rodent Sightings Map

RatCity

4019 locations in the last 30 days (4193 reports) · Last sighting 2 days 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
8/25/20255759 N ELSTON AVEJefferson Park39Completed11 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/10/20264441 N KOSTNER AVEIrving Park39Completed14 daysInternetCity 311
8/25/20256359 W HUNTINGTON STNorwood Park39Completed11 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
12/16/20256152 N LEGETT AVEForest Glen39Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
12/16/20253502 W HOLLYWOOD AVENorth Park39Completed1 dayAlderman's OfficeCity 311
12/17/20255342 N KEDZIE AVENorth Park39Completed0 daysInternetCity 311
9/10/20265127 N DRAKE AVENorth Park39Completed14 daysPhone CallCity 311
8/25/20255942 N LEONARD AVEJefferson Park39Completed11 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
9/24/20256146 N LEGETT AVEForest Glen39Completed6 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
9/10/20265140 N BERNARD STNorth Park39Completed8 daysInternetCity 311
9/24/20254911 N KENNETH AVEAlbany Park39Completed6 daysInternetCity 311
9/10/20264332 N KOSTNER AVEIrving Park39Completed14 daysInternetCity 311
9/9/20264931 N KENTUCKY AVEAlbany Park39Completed15 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
10/8/20256232 N PULASKI RDForest Glen39Completed6 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
9/9/20264847 N KILBOURN AVEAlbany Park39Completed15 daysInternetCity 311
8/25/20255823 N CHRISTIANA AVENorth Park39Completed11 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/9/20263201 W BERWYN AVENorth Park39Completed15 daysPhone CallCity 311
7/3/20264323 N KEDVALE AVEIrving Park39Completed6 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/23/20256147 N LEGETT AVEForest Glen39Completed7 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/9/20265821 N KIMBALL AVENorth Park39Completed15 daysInternetCity 311
8/28/20265900 N KEATING AVEForest Glen39Completed12 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/8/20265867 N CICERO AVEForest Glen39Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
9/8/20266270 N CICERO AVEForest Glen39Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
8/25/20256234 N LOWELL AVEForest Glen39Completed11 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
12/18/20254653 W DEVON AVEForest Glen39Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
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