RatCity — Chicago Rat and Rodent Sightings Map

RatCity

4287 locations in the last 30 days (4473 reports) · Last sighting 19 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

59,354 reports match your filters.

DateAddressNeighborhoodWardStatusResponse timeReported viaSource
10/31/2025436 W POLK STNear West Side28Completed5 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
7/30/2025436 W 72ND STEnglewood6Completed7 daysInternetCity 311
2/3/2026436 W 72ND STEnglewood6Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
1/12/2026436 N LEAMINGTON AVEAustin37Completed1 dayAlderman's OfficeCity 311
6/22/2026436 E NORTH WATER STNear North Side42Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
10/30/20264366 W NORTH AVEHumboldt Park36Open—Mobile DeviceCity 311
10/3/20254364 S EMERALD AVENew City15Completed5 daysPhone CallCity 311
8/19/20254364 S EMERALD AVENew City15Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
9/11/20254364 S EMERALD AVENew City15Completed8 daysPhone CallCity 311
11/28/20254364 S EMERALD AVENew City15Completed3 daysPhone CallCity 311
10/7/20264363 S LAKE PARK AVEKenwood4Completed6 daysInternetCity 311
10/14/20264362 N KENMORE AVEUptown46Completed13 daysInternetCity 311
9/5/20254361 W LELAND AVEIrving Park39Completed13 daysInternetCity 311
5/16/20264361 W LELAND AVEIrving Park39Completed5 daysInternetCity 311
8/1/2026435 W DIVERSEY AVELincoln Park43Completed10 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
5/22/2026435 N LAWLER AVEAustin37Completed4 daysPhone CallCity 311
7/1/2026435 N LAWLER AVEAustin37Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
5/14/2026435 E 87TH PLChatham8Completed6 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
6/12/2026435 E 87TH PLChatham8Completed3 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
1/7/2026435 E 45TH PLGrand Boulevard3Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
12/14/2025435 E 45TH PLGrand Boulevard3Completed0 daysInternetCity 311
10/21/20264359 W WILCOX STWest Garfield Park28Completed13 daysInternetCity 311
11/3/20254359 W IRVING PARK RDIrving Park30Completed2 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
6/11/20264359 W DRUMMOND PLHermosa31Completed4 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
10/7/20264359 W 25TH STSouth Lawndale22Completed13 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
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