RatCity — Chicago Rat and Rodent Sightings Map

RatCity

4194 locations in the last 30 days (4378 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
1/8/20262640 S PRINCETON AVEArmour Square11Completed0 daysPhone CallCity 311
1/8/2026267 W 22ND PLArmour Square11Completed0 daysPhone CallCity 311
1/8/20267217 S CALIFORNIA AVEChicago Lawn18Completed1 dayMobile DeviceCity 311
1/8/20263331 W BELDEN AVELogan Square35Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
1/8/20261417 N CLEAVER STWest Town1Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
1/8/20265151 S NATOMA AVEGarfield Ridge23Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
1/8/20264030 N LECLAIRE AVEPortage Park38Completed1 dayMobile DeviceCity 311
1/8/2026820 W BELLE PLAINE AVEUptown46Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
1/8/20262225 W ADAMS STNear West Side27Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
1/8/20266017 N NAGLE AVENorwood Park39Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
1/8/20262241 E 71ST STSouth Shore5Canceled1 dayPhone CallCity 311
1/8/2026210 W ILLINOIS STNear North Side42Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
1/8/20267546 N OAKLEY AVEWest Ridge49Completed0 daysPhone CallCity 311
1/8/20263735 W EASTWOOD AVEAlbany Park33Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
1/8/202611525 S UNION AVEWest Pullman21Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
1/8/2026937 W 31ST STBridgeport11Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
1/8/20263819 N KENMORE AVELake View46Completed1 dayMobile DeviceCity 311
1/8/20265247 S MELVINA AVEGarfield Ridge23Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
1/8/20265062 N KIMBALL AVENorth Park39Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
1/8/20262963 N LAWNDALE AVEAvondale35Completed4 daysInternetCity 311
1/8/20267923 S DOBSON AVEChatham8Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
1/8/20262217 W MADISON STNear West Side27Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
1/8/20261464 W OHIO STWest Town1Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
1/8/20265250 N NASHVILLE AVENorwood Park41Completed1 dayMobile DeviceCity 311
1/8/20266517 W FOSTER AVENorwood Park41Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
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