RatCity — Chicago Rat and Rodent Sightings Map

RatCity

4343 locations in the last 30 days (4531 reports) · Last sighting 14 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

59,238 reports match your filters.

DateAddressNeighborhoodWardStatusResponse timeReported viaSource
10/30/20255225 W MADISON STAustin29Completed5 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/1/20261637 N MONITOR AVEAustin29Completed3 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
10/13/2026219 S LOTUS AVEAustin29Completed9 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/11/20255233 W CRYSTAL STAustin37Completed11 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/1/20265911 W ERIE STAustin29Completed3 daysPhone CallCity 311
10/17/20264842 W CONGRESS PKWYAustin29Completed12 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
8/28/20261758 N RUTHERFORD AVEAustin29Completed7 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/8/20261754 N LARAMIE AVEAustin37Completed14 daysPhone CallCity 311
10/22/20261212 N MASON AVEAustin29Completed14 daysPhone CallCity 311
8/26/2025910 S MENARD AVEAustin29Completed14 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/22/20255122 W WABANSIA AVEAustin37Completed3 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/22/20254930 W ST PAUL AVEAustin37Completed3 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
9/21/20255701 W MADISON STAustin29Completed4 daysInternetCity 311
10/19/2026644 N LARAMIE AVEAustin37Completed10 daysInternetCity 311
9/19/20254844 W ST PAUL AVEAustin37Completed6 daysInternetCity 311
9/17/20254841 W MONROE STAustin28Completed8 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
11/24/20254635 W MADISON STAustin28Completed2 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
6/23/202630 N MAYFIELD AVEAustin29Completed9 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
9/19/202542 N PARKSIDE AVEAustin29Completed6 daysPhone CallCity 311
6/23/202635 N MAYFIELD AVEAustin29Completed9 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
6/23/20265808 W SUPERIOR STAustin29Completed9 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/17/2025911 N CENTRAL AVEAustin37Completed8 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
6/25/202639 N PINE AVEAustin29Completed7 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
7/1/20265312 W WASHINGTON BLVDAustin37Completed8 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/17/2025154 N LAPORTE AVEAustin28Completed8 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
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