RatCity — Chicago Rat and Rodent Sightings Map

RatCity

4288 locations in the last 30 days (4479 reports) · Last sighting 19 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
2/17/20261100 N LECLAIRE AVEAustin37Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
2/17/20264000 S ELLIS AVEOakland4Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
2/17/20263839 W 56TH PLWest Elsdon23Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
2/17/20264501 N MOBILE AVEPortage Park38Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
2/17/20265310 N MILWAUKEE AVEJefferson Park45Completed2 daysPhone CallCity 311
2/17/20262240 W IOWA STWest Town36Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
2/17/2026821 N KEELER AVEHumboldt Park37Completed2 daysInternetCity 311
2/17/20262611 S MILLARD AVESouth Lawndale22Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
2/17/20263507 N RETA AVELake View44Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
2/17/20267029 W HENDERSON STDunning38Completed0 daysPhone CallCity 311
2/17/20262751 N SEMINARY AVELincoln Park43Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
2/17/20265234 N MULLIGAN AVEJefferson Park41Completed2 daysPhone CallCity 311
2/17/20265008 W WABANSIA AVEAustin37Completed2 daysPhone CallCity 311
2/17/20261508 W ARTHUR AVERogers Park49Completed2 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
2/17/20265531 W VAN BUREN STAustin29Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
2/17/20262909 N DAMEN AVENorth Center32Completed2 daysInternetCity 311
2/17/20261140 W OAKDALE AVELake View44Completed1 dayMobile DeviceCity 311
2/17/20266131 S MAY STEnglewood16Completed2 daysPhone CallCity 311
2/17/20266237 W 63RD STClearing13Completed2 daysPhone CallCity 311
2/17/20261917 W CUYLER AVENorth Center47Completed2 daysInternetCity 311
2/17/20264925 N BELL AVELincoln Square40Completed2 daysInternetCity 311
2/17/20261231 W ROSCOE STLake View44Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
2/17/20263160 N MILWAUKEE AVEAvondale31Completed1 dayMobile DeviceCity 311
2/17/20261910 N CALIFORNIA AVELogan Square1Completed1 dayMobile DeviceCity 311
2/17/20262513 S ST LOUIS AVESouth Lawndale22Completed3 daysPhone CallCity 311
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