RatCity — Chicago Rat and Rodent Sightings Map

RatCity

4313 locations in the last 30 days (4505 reports) · Last sighting 18 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
2/11/2026742 N LAWNDALE AVEHumboldt Park27Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
2/11/20262019 W OHIO STWest Town36Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
2/11/20264707 N SAWYER AVEAlbany Park33Completed1 dayAlderman's OfficeCity 311
2/11/20264707 N DRAKE AVEAlbany Park33Completed1 dayAlderman's OfficeCity 311
2/11/20265934 N HERMITAGE AVEEdgewater40Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
2/11/20263247 W DIVERSEY AVELogan Square35Completed1 dayAlderman's OfficeCity 311
2/11/2026712 S LAFLIN STNear West Side28Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
2/11/202655 W CHESTNUT STNear North Side42Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
2/11/2026739 N RIDGEWAY AVEHumboldt Park27Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
2/11/20267132 S TALMAN AVEChicago Lawn17Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
2/11/20261350 W BYRON STLake View46Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
2/11/20262724 N LAWNDALE AVELogan Square35Completed1 dayMobile DeviceCity 311
2/11/20263713 W 67TH PLWest Lawn23Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
2/11/20267624 W SCHOOL STDunning38Completed1 dayMobile DeviceCity 311
2/11/20262411 N LONG AVEBelmont Cragin31Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
2/11/20261016 W CULLERTON STLower West Side25Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
2/11/20261124 W 19TH PLLower West Side25Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
2/11/20264003 S BRIGHTON PLBrighton Park12Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
2/11/20265340 S MEADE AVEGarfield Ridge23Completed1 dayMobile DeviceCity 311
2/11/20264340 N SAWYER AVEIrving Park33Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
2/11/20262343 W RICE STWest Town36Completed1 dayMobile DeviceCity 311
2/11/2026829 N WESTERN AVEWest Town36Completed1 dayMobile DeviceCity 311
2/11/2026937 W LAKESIDE PLUptown46Completed1 dayMobile DeviceCity 311
2/11/20264445 N ST LOUIS AVEAlbany Park33Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
2/11/20263505 W MCLEAN AVELogan Square26Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
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