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
6/6/20266601 W HENDERSON STDunning38Completed3 daysInternetCity 311
10/31/202510509 S MILLARD AVEMount Greenwood19Completed3 daysInternetCity 311
3/5/20263715 W 83RD PLAshburn18Completed3 daysInternetCity 311
8/11/202611132 S ST LOUIS AVEMount Greenwood19Completed3 daysPhone CallCity 311
6/12/20264714 S WOOD STNew City15Completed3 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
3/7/20263112 W WARREN BLVDEast Garfield Park27Completed3 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
6/5/2026970 W MONTANA STLincoln Park43Completed3 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
11/1/2025108 W 107TH STRoseland9Completed3 daysInternetCity 311
5/1/20264310 N SHERIDAN RDUptown46Completed3 daysPhone CallCity 311
11/6/20257943 S CLYDE AVESouth Chicago8Completed3 daysPhone CallCity 311
11/13/20256247 N NAPER AVENorwood Park45Completed3 daysInternetCity 311
10/20/20256802 S ADA STWest Englewood17Completed3 daysPhone CallCity 311
6/4/20263733 N GREENVIEW AVELake View44Completed3 daysPhone CallCity 311
3/20/20264927 N DAMEN AVELincoln Square47Completed3 daysInternetCity 311
4/16/20262018 N FREMONT STLincoln Park43Completed3 daysInternetCity 311
6/21/20264353 W 25TH STSouth Lawndale22Completed3 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
10/20/20251107 W ADDISON STLake View44Completed3 daysInternetCity 311
3/1/2026424 W DIVERSEY PKWYLake View44Completed3 daysInternetCity 311
4/17/2026920 W 53RD STNew City20Completed3 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
1/24/20264712 N ARTESIAN AVELincoln Square40Completed3 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
6/25/20262607 W HADDON AVEWest Town36Completed3 daysInternetCity 311
5/7/20265400 S LONG AVEGarfield Ridge23Completed3 daysInternetCity 311
5/14/20261765 N CLARK STLincoln Park43Completed3 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
2/21/20263304 N SHEFFIELD AVELake View44Completed3 daysInternetCity 311
6/6/202613241 S BUFFALO AVEHegewisch10Completed3 daysInternetCity 311
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