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
8/4/20262223 W WELLINGTON AVENorth Center32Completed6 daysPhone CallCity 311
1/28/20262248 W NORTH AVEWest Town32Completed0 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
2/18/20262148 W WEBSTER AVELogan Square32Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
4/21/20262355 W ADDISON STNorth Center32Completed0 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
5/6/20261230 W DIVERSEY PKWYLake View32Completed1 dayMobile DeviceCity 311
4/29/20261341 W GEORGE STLake View32Completed2 daysInternetCity 311
4/29/20262419 N CLYBOURN AVELincoln Park32Completed2 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
11/4/20263054 N RACINE AVELake View32Open—Phone CallCity 311
11/4/20262921 N SEELEY AVENorth Center32Open—Mobile DeviceCity 311
11/4/20262420 N SOUTHPORT AVELincoln Park32Open—Mobile DeviceCity 311
12/20/20253056 N RACINE AVELake View32Completed2 daysPhone CallCity 311
1/4/20262728 N MAGNOLIA AVELincoln Park32Completed0 daysInternetCity 311
12/19/20251811 W BLOOMINGDALE AVELogan Square32Completed2 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
10/22/20261926 W NEWPORT AVENorth Center32Completed13 daysInternetCity 311
11/5/20261742 W DIVERSEY PKWYLake View32Open—Mobile DeviceCity 311
1/7/20261523 W MONTANA AVELincoln Park32Completed0 daysPhone CallCity 311
11/5/20261759 W BARRY AVELake View32Open—Mobile DeviceCity 311
4/24/20261756 W SCHOOL STLake View32Completed4 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
4/24/20261702 W SCHOOL STLake View32Completed4 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
4/23/20261744 W SCHOOL STLake View32Completed5 daysInternetCity 311
4/24/20261924 W BARRY AVENorth Center32Completed4 daysInternetCity 311
4/23/20261715 W HENDERSON STLake View32Completed5 daysPhone CallCity 311
4/13/20262309 W ADDISON STNorth Center32Completed3 daysInternetCity 311
11/4/20262015 W WILLOW STWest Town32Open—InternetCity 311
1/4/20263352 N MARSHFIELD AVELake View32Completed1 dayMobile DeviceCity 311
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