RatCity — Chicago Rat and Rodent Sightings Map

RatCity

4194 locations in the last 30 days (4379 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 — 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

58,858 reports match your filters.

DateAddressNeighborhoodWardStatusResponse timeReported viaSource
1/6/20267930 S CARPENTER STAuburn Gresham17Completed0 daysInternetCity 311
1/6/20263722 N HALSTED STLake View46Completed0 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
1/6/20263545 N WHIPPLE STAvondale33Completed0 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
1/6/20263453 N LEAVITT STNorth Center32Completed0 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
1/6/20261838 W CORTLAND STLogan Square32Completed0 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
1/7/20261618 W EDGEWATER AVEEdgewater40Completed0 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
1/7/20265608 S SEELEY AVEWest Englewood15Completed1 dayMobile DeviceCity 311
1/7/20261404 W 73RD STWest Englewood17Completed0 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
1/7/20265036 N LOCKWOOD AVEJefferson Park45Completed1 dayMobile DeviceCity 311
1/7/20265514 S BISHOP STWest Englewood16Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
1/7/20266239 W FLETCHER STBelmont Cragin30Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
1/7/20263125 W BELDEN AVELogan Square35Completed0 daysPhone CallCity 311
1/7/20264909 W MONTANA STBelmont Cragin31Completed1 dayMobile DeviceCity 311
1/7/20268619 S LOWE AVEAuburn Gresham21Completed0 daysPhone CallCity 311
1/7/20265249 S MELVINA AVEGarfield Ridge23Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
1/7/20266235 N CLAREMONT AVEWest Ridge50Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
1/7/20266248 N MONTICELLO AVENorth Park50Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
1/7/20264946 S KOSTNER AVEArcher Heights14Completed0 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
1/7/20265713 W EDDY STPortage Park30Completed1 dayMobile DeviceCity 311
1/7/20265345 S KIMBARK AVEHyde Park5Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
1/7/20261601 E 55TH STHyde Park5Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
1/7/20264850 W HADDON AVEAustin37Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
1/7/20261523 W MONTANA AVELincoln Park32Completed0 daysPhone CallCity 311
1/7/20266714 S ELIZABETH STWest Englewood17Completed0 daysPhone CallCity 311
1/7/20263704 N SAYRE AVEDunning38Completed0 daysPhone CallCity 311
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