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
11/14/20255159 S ABERDEEN STNew City20Completed4 daysPhone CallCity 311
6/4/20261254 N AVERS AVEHumboldt Park36Completed4 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
6/22/20261720 W WINNEMAC AVEUptown40Completed4 daysInternetCity 311
6/18/20266535 S KEDZIE AVEChicago Lawn14Completed4 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
6/4/20263839 W GRAND AVEHumboldt Park36Completed4 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
4/30/20263616 W BELMONT AVEAvondale30Completed4 daysInternetCity 311
11/21/202510502 S LAWNDALE AVEMount Greenwood19Completed4 daysPhone CallCity 311
11/3/20251450 W 112TH PLMorgan Park21Completed4 daysInternetCity 311
11/28/20259531 S UNIVERSITY AVEPullman8Completed4 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
6/4/20263907 N TRIPP AVEIrving Park30Completed4 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
6/4/20267235 S FAIRFIELD AVEChicago Lawn18Completed4 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
3/20/20269928 S GREEN STWashington Heights21Completed4 daysPhone CallCity 311
6/12/20264715 S LOOMIS STNew City20Completed4 daysInternetCity 311
8/22/20265451 N NEW ENGLAND AVENorwood Park41Completed4 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
11/21/20258222 S ARTESIAN AVEAshburn18Completed4 daysInternetCity 311
6/26/20262534 S THROOP STBridgeport11Completed4 daysInternetCity 311
4/16/20265807 N MASON AVEJefferson Park45Completed4 daysInternetCity 311
11/13/20255617 S AUSTIN AVEGarfield Ridge13Completed4 daysInternetCity 311
6/5/20262731 W FITCH AVEWest Ridge50Completed4 daysPhone CallCity 311
4/25/20265701 N MERRIMAC AVENorwood Park45Completed4 daysPhone CallCity 311
1/23/20262000 W 51ST STNew City15Completed4 daysPhone CallCity 311
10/30/20252424 W IOWA STWest Town36Completed4 daysPhone CallCity 311
6/5/20261446 W HIGHLAND AVEEdgewater48Completed4 daysPhone CallCity 311
2/27/20263700 W EDDY STAvondale30Completed4 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
7/3/20263607 W CERMAK RDSouth Lawndale22Completed4 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
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