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
9/25/20252171 N ROCKWELL STLogan Square1Completed4 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
1/23/20264901 S MAPLEWOOD AVEGage Park15Completed4 daysPhone CallCity 311
7/5/20262344 N SOUTHPORT AVELincoln Park2Completed4 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
8/20/20261700 N NASHVILLE AVEAustin29Completed4 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
6/12/20266519 S FAIRFIELD AVEChicago Lawn16Completed4 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
2/20/20262175 W TOUHY AVEWest Ridge50Completed4 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
5/15/20264412 N GREENVIEW AVEUptown47Completed4 daysInternetCity 311
11/20/20252524 S DRAKE AVESouth Lawndale22Completed4 daysPhone CallCity 311
6/13/20265148 S LOCKWOOD AVEGarfield Ridge23Completed4 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
5/8/202611038 S ARTESIAN AVEMorgan Park19Completed4 daysPhone CallCity 311
8/16/20261524 W 110TH STMorgan Park21Completed4 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
1/8/20265228 N LUDLAM AVEJefferson Park45Completed4 daysInternetCity 311
10/3/20254280 N MARINE DRUptown46Completed4 daysInternetCity 311
5/29/20261742 N BISSELL STLincoln Park43Completed4 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
7/31/20255530 S MAYFIELD AVEGarfield Ridge13Completed4 daysInternetCity 311
11/8/20255334 W KINZIE STAustin37Completed4 daysInternetCity 311
4/23/20261908 N CLARK STLincoln Park43Completed4 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
5/29/20266034 W DAKIN STDunning38Completed4 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
5/31/20265900 W WAVELAND AVEPortage Park38Completed4 daysInternetCity 311
5/31/20262443 N JANSSEN AVELincoln Park32Completed4 daysInternetCity 311
9/17/20261232 N LA SALLE DRNear North Side2Completed4 daysPhone CallCity 311
5/22/20266518 S KENNETH AVEWest Lawn13Completed4 daysInternetCity 311
6/12/20267642 S MORGAN STAuburn Gresham17Completed4 daysInternetCity 311
5/29/20261775 N CLYBOURN AVELincoln Park43Completed4 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
8/23/20265021 S PRAIRIE AVEGrand Boulevard3Completed4 daysInternetCity 311
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