RatCity — Chicago Rat and Rodent Sightings Map

RatCity

4022 locations in the last 30 days (4196 reports) · Last sighting yesterday

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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

60,241 reports match your filters.

DateAddressNeighborhoodWardStatusResponse timeReported viaSource
8/13/20256808 W ARDMORE AVENorwood Park41Completed7 daysPhone CallCity 311
8/13/20256441 N NEWLAND AVENorwood Park41Completed12 daysPhone CallCity 311
8/28/20255118 N NASHVILLE AVENorwood Park41Completed7 daysPhone CallCity 311
8/8/20256542 W FOSTER AVENorwood Park41Completed12 daysPhone CallCity 311
10/29/20266916 W HIGGINS AVENorwood Park41Completed0 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
8/6/20257625 W CATALPA AVENorwood Park41Completed14 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
8/6/20258617 W CATHERINE AVEO'Hare41Completed14 daysInternetCity 311
9/1/20254917 N MULLIGAN AVEJefferson Park41Completed11 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
8/26/20255313 N NEWLAND AVENorwood Park41Completed10 daysInternetCity 311
8/2/20257800 W SUMMERDALE AVENorwood Park41Completed16 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
8/29/20257301 W NORTH SHORE AVEEdison Park41Completed13 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
9/30/20254861 N OAK PARK AVENorwood Park41Completed7 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
9/24/20255519 N NATCHEZ AVENorwood Park41Completed6 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
8/30/20256666 W HAYES AVENorwood Park41Completed12 daysPhone CallCity 311
8/18/20256265D N NORTHWEST HWYNorwood Park41Completed7 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
8/17/20256011 W GUNNISON STPortage Park41Completed3 daysPhone CallCity 311
8/28/20257824 W SUMMERDALE AVENorwood Park41Completed8 daysPhone CallCity 311
7/9/20265716 N ORIOLE AVENorwood Park41Completed8 daysPhone CallCity 311
7/10/20265846 N EAST CIRCLE AVENorwood Park41Completed7 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/27/20257215 W MYRTLE AVENorwood Park41Completed10 daysInternetCity 311
8/14/20256400 N NEWCASTLE AVENorwood Park41Completed11 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
10/8/20268542 W CATALPA AVEO'Hare41Completed13 daysInternetCity 311
8/30/20255237 N NEWLAND AVENorwood Park41Completed6 daysInternetCity 311
10/15/20265442 N NEWCASTLE AVENorwood Park41Completed8 daysPhone CallCity 311
10/1/20255139 N NEENAH AVENorwood Park41Completed6 daysInternetCity 311
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