RatCity — Chicago Rat and Rodent Sightings Map

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4219 locations in the last 30 days (4402 reports) · Last sighting yesterday

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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

59,238 reports match your filters.

DateAddressNeighborhoodWardStatusResponse timeReported viaSource
3/2/20264506 N CLARENDON AVEUptown46Completed1 dayMobile DeviceCity 311
3/2/20261511 N MASON AVEAustin29Completed3 daysInternetCity 311
3/2/20262132 N LINCOLN PARK WESTLincoln Park43Completed2 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
3/2/20265539 N GLENWOOD AVEEdgewater48Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
3/2/20264111 W NELSON STAvondale31Completed4 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
3/2/20261224 S SPRINGFIELD AVENorth Lawndale24Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
3/2/20266143 W PETERSON AVENorwood Park45Completed1 dayMobile DeviceCity 311
3/2/2026837 W NORTH AVENear North Side2Completed2 daysInternetCity 311
3/2/20261350 N DEARBORN STNear North Side2Completed2 daysInternetCity 311
3/2/20261473 W 114TH PLMorgan Park21Completed3 daysInternetCity 311
3/2/20261246 W 50TH STNew City20Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
3/2/20261246 W 50TH STNew City20Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
3/2/202612258 S PRINCETON AVEWest Pullman9Completed3 daysInternetCity 311
3/2/20265200 S CARPENTER STNew City20Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
3/2/2026859 N HERMITAGE AVEWest Town1Completed1 dayMobile DeviceCity 311
3/2/20265200 S CARPENTER STNew City20Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
3/2/202612441 S EGGLESTON AVEWest Pullman9Completed3 daysInternetCity 311
3/2/202612441 S EGGLESTON AVEWest Pullman9Completed3 daysInternetCity 311
3/2/202611550 S CHURCH STMorgan Park19Completed3 daysInternetCity 311
3/2/2026438 W SURF STLake View44Completed2 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
3/2/2026530 W DIVERSEY AVELake View44Completed2 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
3/2/20263648 S HOYNE AVEMcKinley Park12Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
3/2/20261117 W 25TH STBridgeport11Completed2 daysInternetCity 311
3/2/20263434 W EVERGREEN AVEHumboldt Park26Completed3 daysPhone CallCity 311
3/2/2026648 W GRACE STLake View46Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
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