RatCity — Chicago Rat and Rodent Sightings Map

RatCity

4035 locations in the last 30 days (4209 reports) · Last sighting 21 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

60,241 reports match your filters.

DateAddressNeighborhoodWardStatusResponse timeReported viaSource
8/28/2026931 N WINCHESTER AVEWest Town36Completed13 daysInternetCity 311
8/28/20265113 N WOLCOTT AVELincoln Square40Completed12 daysInternetCity 311
8/28/20261611 W FARGO AVERogers Park49Completed14 daysPhone CallCity 311
8/28/20262823 N KEDZIE AVEAvondale35Completed13 daysInternetCity 311
8/28/20265654 W BYRON STPortage Park38Completed13 daysInternetCity 311
8/28/20264844 W MADISON STAustin28Completed7 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
8/28/20265237 N MEADE AVEJefferson Park45Completed13 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
8/28/202610524 S VERNON AVERoseland9Completed14 daysPhone CallCity 311
8/28/2026415 N MILWAUKEE AVEWest Town27Completed7 daysInternetCity 311
8/28/20262415 N MCVICKER AVEBelmont Cragin30Completed11 daysInternetCity 311
8/28/20265611 N JERSEY AVENorth Park39Completed17 daysInternetCity 311
8/28/20264331 W 25TH PLSouth Lawndale22Completed7 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
8/28/202611004 S SPRINGFIELD AVEMount Greenwood19Completed7 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
8/28/20263730 N RICHMOND STIrving Park35Completed13 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
8/28/20265126 S KIMBARK AVEHyde Park4Completed3 daysInternetCity 311
8/28/202635 W 103RD PLRoseland9Completed14 daysPhone CallCity 311
8/28/20267811 S WOOD STAuburn Gresham17Completed13 daysInternetCity 311
8/28/20265723 W MELROSE STPortage Park30Completed17 daysPhone CallCity 311
8/28/20262339 N SAWYER AVELogan Square35Completed17 daysInternetCity 311
8/28/2026930 W CUYLER AVEUptown46Completed13 daysInternetCity 311
8/28/20262535 W MEDILL AVELogan Square1Completed13 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
8/28/20263230 W OLIVE AVENorth Park39Completed14 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
8/28/20265856 W LAKE STAustin29Completed4 daysInternetCity 311
8/28/20264529 N CHRISTIANA AVEAlbany Park33Completed14 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
8/28/20261422 N ORLEANS STNear North Side27Completed7 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
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