RatCity — Chicago Rat and Rodent Sightings Map

RatCity

4330 locations in the last 30 days (4522 reports) · Last sighting 17 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
2/7/20263734 N MOZART STIrving Park35Completed2 daysInternetCity 311
2/7/202612905 S GREEN STWest Pullman9Completed2 daysPhone CallCity 311
2/7/20267645 W CATALPA AVENorwood Park41Completed3 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
2/7/20262620 W FOSTER AVELincoln Square40Completed2 daysPhone CallCity 311
2/7/20261150 W 110TH PLMorgan Park21Completed2 daysPhone CallCity 311
2/7/20263942 N ALBANY AVEIrving Park33Completed2 daysInternetCity 311
2/7/20266048 S ALBANY AVEChicago Lawn14Completed3 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
2/7/20264831 S ADA STNew City20Completed2 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
2/7/20263426 N LINCOLN AVELake View47Completed2 daysInternetCity 311
2/7/20263113 S RACINE AVEBridgeport11Completed2 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
2/7/20264417 S ARTESIAN AVEBrighton Park15Completed2 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
2/7/20265150 S HONORE STNew City16Completed2 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
2/7/20264923 N MENARD AVEJefferson Park45Completed2 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
2/7/20263000 S KILDARE AVESouth Lawndale22Completed3 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
2/7/20261848 N WHIPPLE STLogan Square26Completed2 daysInternetCity 311
2/7/20267550 S ESSEX AVESouth Shore7Completed2 daysInternetCity 311
2/7/20267218 N ROGERS AVERogers Park49Completed2 daysInternetCity 311
2/7/20269349 S MICHIGAN AVERoseland6Completed2 daysInternetCity 311
2/7/20263669 N ELSTON AVEIrving Park33Completed2 daysInternetCity 311
2/7/20261310 N ASTOR STNear North Side43Completed2 daysInternetCity 311
2/7/202611 E DIVISION STNear North Side2Completed2 daysInternetCity 311
2/7/20264744 N CAMPBELL AVELincoln Square40Completed2 daysInternetCity 311
2/7/20261254 N AVERS AVEHumboldt Park36Completed2 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
2/7/20263839 W GRAND AVEHumboldt Park36Completed2 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
2/7/20261733 W FARWELL AVERogers Park49Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
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