RatCity — Chicago Rat and Rodent Sightings Map

RatCity

4389 locations in the last 30 days (4583 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
2/20/2026514 E 50TH PLGrand Boulevard20Completed4 daysPhone CallCity 311
5/28/20264743 N MAPLEWOOD AVELincoln Square40Completed4 daysInternetCity 311
5/28/20266642 N ASHLAND AVERogers Park49Completed4 daysPhone CallCity 311
6/4/2026900 S BELL AVENear West Side28Completed4 daysInternetCity 311
6/22/20263239 W 51ST STGage Park14Completed4 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
7/20/20261828 S MELODY CTArmour Square11Completed4 daysInternetCity 311
6/27/20262134 N LEAMINGTON AVEBelmont Cragin26Completed4 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
3/26/20264947 W WOLFRAM STBelmont Cragin31Completed4 daysInternetCity 311
6/22/20262838 N KIMBALL AVEAvondale35Completed4 daysInternetCity 311
8/30/20252034 W BERWYN AVELincoln Square40Completed4 daysInternetCity 311
5/8/20261125 N LA SALLE STNear North Side2Completed4 daysInternetCity 311
6/8/2026940 W CUYLER AVEUptown46Completed4 daysInternetCity 311
8/18/20255643 S KEELER AVEWest Elsdon13Completed4 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
5/4/20264745 N LOTUS AVEPortage Park45Completed4 daysPhone CallCity 311
5/15/20262115 W BARRY AVENorth Center32Completed4 daysInternetCity 311
3/20/202610650 S CHAMPLAIN AVEPullman9Completed4 daysInternetCity 311
11/14/20253340 S CARPENTER STBridgeport11Completed4 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
5/24/20263544 N PANAMA AVEDunning38Completed4 daysInternetCity 311
5/24/20265836 N MASON AVEJefferson Park45Completed4 daysInternetCity 311
10/20/202552 W 81ST STChatham17Completed4 daysPhone CallCity 311
3/27/2026811 W 129TH PLWest Pullman9Completed4 daysPhone CallCity 311
3/12/2026857 N CENTRAL AVEAustin37Completed4 daysPhone CallCity 311
6/11/20265016 N MANGO AVEJefferson Park45Completed4 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
11/27/20253418 N LINCOLN AVELake View47Completed4 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
6/28/20261318 W HOWARD STRogers Park49Completed4 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
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