RatCity — Chicago Rat and Rodent Sightings Map

RatCity

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

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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
9/23/20254505 S CALIFORNIA AVEBrighton Park12Completed3 daysInternetCity 311
11/6/20254505 N WESTERN AVELincoln Square47Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
10/21/20264505 N WESTERN AVELincoln Square47Completed13 daysInternetCity 311
7/23/20264505 N MELVINA AVEPortage Park38Completed14 daysPhone CallCity 311
5/5/20264505 N MALDEN STUptown46Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
11/3/20264505 N ALBANY AVEAlbany Park33Open—InternetCity 311
6/22/20264504 W SCHUBERT AVEHermosa31Completed2 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
6/18/20264504 W SCHUBERT AVEHermosa31Completed4 daysInternetCity 311
6/29/20264504 W SCHUBERT AVEHermosa31Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
2/11/20264504 W BELMONT AVEIrving Park30Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
10/28/20254504 S WASHTENAW AVEBrighton Park12Completed3 daysInternetCity 311
8/29/20254504 N MOZART STAlbany Park33Completed10 daysInternetCity 311
9/24/20264504 N MOZART STAlbany Park33Completed12 daysInternetCity 311
9/19/20264504 N HARDING AVEAlbany Park33Completed16 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
10/3/20264504 N CLARK STUptown47Completed16 daysInternetCity 311
11/6/20254503 W WRIGHTWOOD AVEHermosa31Completed1 dayAlderman's OfficeCity 311
7/29/20264503 S WHIPPLE STBrighton Park12Completed12 daysInternetCity 311
6/12/20264503 S DR MARTIN LUTHER KING JR DRGrand Boulevard3Completed4 daysPhone CallCity 311
1/14/20264503 S DR MARTIN LUTHER KING JR DRGrand Boulevard3Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
5/5/20264503 N MALDEN STUptown46Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
6/25/20264503 N KEYSTONE AVEAlbany Park39Completed4 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
4/22/20264502 W MAYPOLE AVEWest Garfield Park28Completed1 dayMobile DeviceCity 311
9/15/20254502 W MAYPOLE AVEWest Garfield Park28Completed10 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/17/20264502 S AVERS AVEArcher Heights14Completed7 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/19/20264501 W THOMAS STHumboldt Park37Completed10 daysInternetCity 311
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