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

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.

NeighborhoodWardStatusZip codeFromTo

Date	Address	Neighborhood	Ward	Status	Response time	Reported via	Source
12/18/2025	1632 N LOREL AVE	Austin	37	Completed	1 day	Phone Call	City 311
4/17/2026	1100 N LECLAIRE AVE	Austin	37	Completed	4 days	Phone Call	City 311
12/22/2025	203 N LOREL AVE	Austin	37	Completed	1 day	Phone Call	City 311
9/30/2025	31 N MENARD AVE	Austin	29	Completed	2 days	Phone Call	City 311
12/16/2025	143 N PARKSIDE AVE	Austin	29	Completed	1 day	Phone Call	City 311
9/17/2025	1100 N LATROBE AVE	Austin	37	Completed	12 days	Phone Call	City 311
9/26/2025	210 S LAVERGNE AVE	Austin	28	Completed	6 days	Phone Call	City 311
9/25/2025	4853 W QUINCY ST	Austin	28	Completed	7 days	Phone Call	City 311
10/25/2026	1628 N LARAMIE AVE	Austin	37	Completed	11 days	Phone Call	City 311
10/29/2026	22 N PARKSIDE AVE	Austin	29	Completed	7 days	Internet	City 311
4/22/2026	5628 W LAKE ST	Austin	29	Completed	1 day	Mobile Device	City 311
10/3/2025	5911 W ERIE ST	Austin	29	Completed	5 days	Phone Call	City 311
4/28/2026	220 N LECLAIRE AVE	Austin	28	Completed	3 days	Mobile Device	City 311
8/16/2025	4833 W SUPERIOR ST	Austin	37	Completed	11 days	Phone Call	City 311
8/12/2025	5822 W LAKE ST	Austin	29	Completed	15 days	Alderman's Office	City 311
4/23/2026	236 N LECLAIRE AVE	Austin	28	Completed	5 days	Phone Call	City 311
8/29/2025	1717 N MONITOR AVE	Austin	29	Completed	12 days	Internet	City 311
9/30/2025	5259 W QUINCY ST	Austin	29	Completed	2 days	Phone Call	City 311
9/23/2025	728 N CENTRAL AVE	Austin	29	Completed	9 days	Internet	City 311
10/8/2025	5530 W QUINCY ST	Austin	29	Completed	2 days	Phone Call	City 311
4/16/2026	4956 W WASHINGTON BLVD	Austin	28	Completed	5 days	Internet	City 311
9/24/2025	611 N WALLER AVE	Austin	29	Completed	7 days	Internet	City 311
4/27/2026	5422 W FLOURNOY ST	Austin	29	Completed	0 days	Mobile Device	City 311
4/22/2026	5437 W QUINCY ST	Austin	29	Completed	1 day	Phone Call	City 311
4/18/2026	641 N WALLER AVE	Austin	29	Completed	3 days	Internet	City 311

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