RatCity — Chicago Rat and Rodent Sightings Map

RatCity

4200 locations in the last 30 days (4384 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

59,354 reports match your filters.

DateAddressNeighborhoodWardStatusResponse timeReported viaSource
8/9/20264219 S KILPATRICK AVEGarfield Ridge22Completed4 daysInternetCity 311
9/8/20264219 S ELLIS AVEOakland4Completed7 daysInternetCity 311
9/15/20254219 S CAMPBELL AVEBrighton Park12Completed7 daysPhone CallCity 311
10/2/20264219 N MARMORA AVEPortage Park38Completed12 daysInternetCity 311
8/16/20264219 N KILPATRICK AVEPortage Park45Completed15 daysInternetCity 311
9/29/20264219 N DAMEN AVENorth Center47Completed15 daysPhone CallCity 311
7/31/20254218 W WILCOX STWest Garfield Park28Completed4 daysPhone CallCity 311
10/4/20254218 W ARMITAGE AVEHermosa35Completed11 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
1/1/20264218 W ARMITAGE AVEHermosa35Completed0 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
10/23/20264218 S INDIANA AVEGrand Boulevard3Completed4 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
11/8/20254218 S DR MARTIN LUTHER KING JR DRGrand Boulevard3Completed2 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
11/13/20254218 S ARCHER AVEBrighton Park12Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
9/29/20264218 N WINCHESTER AVENorth Center47Completed15 daysInternetCity 311
8/17/20254218 N MASON AVEPortage Park38Completed9 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
11/12/20254218 N CALIFORNIA AVEIrving Park33Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
8/27/20264217 W ARTHINGTON STWest Garfield Park24Completed6 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
12/4/20254217 W 78TH STAshburn18Completed1 dayAlderman's OfficeCity 311
10/29/20264217 W 25TH PLSouth Lawndale22Completed8 daysPhone CallCity 311
8/14/20264217 W 25TH PLSouth Lawndale22Completed12 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
6/26/20264217 S ARTESIAN AVEBrighton Park12Completed5 daysPhone CallCity 311
4/13/20264217 S ARTESIAN AVEBrighton Park12Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
10/16/20264217 S ARTESIAN AVEBrighton Park12Completed7 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/15/20264217 S ARTESIAN AVEBrighton Park12Completed9 daysInternetCity 311
8/7/20254217 N OAKLEY AVENorth Center47Completed13 daysInternetCity 311
8/30/20254217 N CENTRAL PARK AVEIrving Park33Completed9 daysInternetCity 311
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