RatCity — Chicago Rat and Rodent Sightings Map

RatCity

4382 locations in the last 30 days (4573 reports) · Last sighting 20 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

58,858 reports match your filters.

DateAddressNeighborhoodWardStatusResponse timeReported viaSource
10/9/20255109 S NEW ENGLAND AVEGarfield Ridge23Completed5 daysPhone CallCity 311
8/22/20253817 W 65TH STWest Lawn23Completed7 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
7/1/20267153 S HARDING AVEWest Lawn23Completed6 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/22/20255119 S MONITOR AVEGarfield Ridge23Completed10 daysInternetCity 311
10/9/20253923 W 65TH STWest Lawn23Completed5 daysPhone CallCity 311
8/20/20253925 W 65TH STWest Lawn23Completed8 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
8/20/20253923 W 65TH STWest Lawn23Completed9 daysPhone CallCity 311
10/9/20255417 S LATROBE AVEGarfield Ridge23Completed5 daysInternetCity 311
10/14/20255326 S LONG AVEGarfield Ridge23Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
3/26/20263709 W 59TH STWest Lawn23Completed1 dayAlderman's OfficeCity 311
8/11/20253937 W 64TH PLWest Lawn23Completed18 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
7/10/20265142 S LA CROSSE AVEGarfield Ridge23Completed9 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
8/16/20255213 S CENTRAL AVEGarfield Ridge23Completed9 daysPhone CallCity 311
8/14/20255434 S ARCHER AVEGarfield Ridge23Completed11 daysInternetCity 311
8/14/20255100 S LA CROSSE AVEGarfield Ridge23Completed11 daysPhone CallCity 311
11/25/20253819 W 59TH PLWest Lawn23Completed6 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
7/9/20265418 S LATROBE AVEGarfield Ridge23Completed10 daysPhone CallCity 311
11/28/20255153 S HARDING AVEWest Elsdon23Completed3 daysPhone CallCity 311
8/25/20255347 S AVERS AVEWest Elsdon23Completed11 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
8/27/20253622 W 66TH STWest Lawn23Completed14 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
11/25/20255142 S LA CROSSE AVEGarfield Ridge23Completed6 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
11/26/20255101 S MOBILE AVEGarfield Ridge23Completed5 daysPhone CallCity 311
8/26/20255321 S NEVA AVEGarfield Ridge23Completed10 daysInternetCity 311
3/25/20263638 W 61ST STWest Lawn23Completed1 dayAlderman's OfficeCity 311
6/29/20265117 S NATOMA AVEGarfield Ridge23Completed8 daysPhone CallCity 311
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