RatCity — Chicago Rat and Rodent Sightings Map

RatCity

4388 locations in the last 30 days (4582 reports) · Last sighting 13 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

59,088 reports match your filters.

DateAddressNeighborhoodWardStatusResponse timeReported viaSource
1/18/20262440 N FRANCISCO AVELogan Square1Completed2 daysInternetCity 311
1/18/20266324 N MAGNOLIA AVEEdgewater48Completed2 daysInternetCity 311
1/18/20265039 W HENDERSON STPortage Park31Completed2 daysInternetCity 311
1/18/20266602 S MARQUETTE RDWoodlawn20Completed2 daysInternetCity 311
1/18/20262627 W LAWRENCE AVELincoln Square40Completed2 daysPhone CallCity 311
1/18/20261744 W LAWRENCE AVEUptown47Completed2 daysInternetCity 311
1/18/20262740 W AUGUSTA BLVDWest Town26Completed2 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
1/18/20263056 N RACINE AVELake View32Completed2 daysPhone CallCity 311
1/18/20263422 N LINCOLN AVELake View47Completed2 daysInternetCity 311
1/18/20264034 N LOWELL AVEIrving Park45Completed2 daysInternetCity 311
1/18/20261940 W 21ST PLLower West Side25Completed2 daysPhone CallCity 311
1/18/20265933 W SCHOOL STPortage Park30Completed2 daysInternetCity 311
1/18/20262134 N LEAMINGTON AVEBelmont Cragin26Completed2 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
1/19/20262117 N DAMEN AVELogan Square32Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
1/19/20265819 W EASTWOOD AVEPortage Park38Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
1/19/20268854 S BUFFALO AVESouth Chicago10Completed1 dayMobile DeviceCity 311
1/19/20262812 E 93RD STCalumet Heights7Completed1 dayMobile DeviceCity 311
1/19/20263244 W 59TH STGage Park14Completed1 dayMobile DeviceCity 311
1/19/2026255 W SWANN STFuller Park20Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
1/19/20261740 N ALBANY AVEHumboldt Park26Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
1/19/20261633 E 74TH STSouth Shore8Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
1/19/20261625 E 74TH STSouth Shore8Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
1/19/20261633 E 74TH STSouth Shore8Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
1/19/20262300 N HOYNE AVELogan Square32Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
1/19/20268018 W BELMONT AVEDunning38Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
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