RatCity — Chicago Rat and Rodent Sightings Map

RatCity

4264 locations in the last 30 days (4453 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 — Oct 26–Nov 1, 2026

  • 🐀 1,021 new reports — down 9% from the week before
  • 👑 Lake View is Rat King with 70 reports
  • 📈 Biggest jump: Lincoln Park, up 15 from last week
  • 🏙️ The city took 11.2 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

58,615 reports match your filters.

DateAddressNeighborhoodWardStatusResponse timeReported viaSource
12/9/20254842 N ALBANY AVEAlbany Park33Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
12/9/20252113 N CLARK STLincoln Park43Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
12/9/20252327 N GENEVA TERLincoln Park43Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
12/9/20254608 S MICHIGAN AVEGrand Boulevard3Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
12/9/20253420 N OVERHILL AVEDunning38Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
12/9/20256908 S PRAIRIE AVEGreater Grand Crossing6Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
12/9/20255100 S LACROSSE AVEGarfield Ridge23Completed1 dayAlderman's OfficeCity 311
12/9/2025901 N HARDING AVEHumboldt Park37Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
12/9/20251756 W MONTROSE AVEUptown47Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
12/9/20256743 S KOSTNER AVEWest Lawn23Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
12/9/20255401 S LONG AVEGarfield Ridge23Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
12/9/20255400 S LONG AVEGarfield Ridge23Completed1 dayAlderman's OfficeCity 311
12/9/20255240 S LOWE AVENew City20Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
12/9/20255400 S LOCKWOOD AVEGarfield Ridge23Completed1 dayAlderman's OfficeCity 311
12/9/20255401 S LOCKWOOD AVEGarfield Ridge23Completed1 dayAlderman's OfficeCity 311
12/9/202511452 S LONGWOOD DRMorgan Park19Completed1 dayMobile DeviceCity 311
12/9/20256120 W 60TH STClearing13Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
12/9/20256556 S LAFLIN STWest Englewood16Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
12/9/20253683 N ELSTON AVEIrving Park33Completed1 dayMobile DeviceCity 311
12/9/20255026 S WESTERN AVEGage Park15Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
12/9/20252019 W LAWRENCE AVELincoln Square47Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
12/9/20255332 S KOSTNER AVEWest Elsdon23Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
12/9/20254349 S TALMAN AVEBrighton Park12Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
12/9/20257337 S SOUTH SHORE DRSouth Shore7Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
12/9/20257500 S SOUTH SHORE DRSouth Shore7Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
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