RatCity — Chicago Rat and Rodent Sightings Map

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4239 locations in the last 30 days (4427 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

59,088 reports match your filters.

DateAddressNeighborhoodWardStatusResponse timeReported viaSource
9/8/20265500 W CORTLAND STAustin37Completed14 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
6/4/20261618 N LOTUS AVEAustin37Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
5/18/2026322 N MAYFIELD AVEAustin29Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
7/16/20265306 W CRYSTAL STAustin37Completed12 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/27/2026126 N LARAMIE AVEAustin37Completed11 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
7/13/202619 N LOREL AVEAustin37Completed10 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
6/12/20261700 N RUTHERFORD AVEAustin29Completed4 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
8/1/20261337 N WALLER AVEAustin29Completed8 daysInternetCity 311
2/17/20261600 N MAYFIELD AVEAustin29Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
7/23/2026136 N MASON AVEAustin29Completed8 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/16/20261353 N LATROBE AVEAustin37Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
5/12/20265437 W QUINCY STAustin29Completed2 daysInternetCity 311
9/24/2026204 N MASONAustin29Completed13 daysSalesforce Mobile AppCity 311
5/18/20265105 W CRYSTAL STAustin37Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
7/25/20261110 N LECLAIRE AVEAustin37Completed5 daysInternetCity 311
7/23/20265945 W MIDWAY PARK PARKAustin29Completed8 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
6/15/20261418 N MENARD AVEAustin29Completed7 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/29/2026912 N LEAMINGTON AVEAustin37Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
7/24/202634 N LOCKWOOD AVEAustin37Completed6 daysInternetCity 311
6/9/2026818 N LEAMINGTON AVEAustin37Completed6 daysPhone CallCity 311
7/14/20265437 W QUINCY STAustin29Completed9 daysPhone CallCity 311
6/2/20265426 W WALTON STAustin37Completed3 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
10/5/2026201 N LATROBE AVEAustin37Completed11 daysPhone CallCity 311
6/17/20261015 N LAVERGNE AVEAustin37Completed5 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
8/22/20264948 W WASHINGTON BLVDAustin28Completed12 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
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