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
3/13/20261643 N OAKLEY AVEWest Town32Completed4 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/14/20251702 W WABANSIA AVEWest Town32Completed11 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
10/24/20262719 W EVERGREEN AVEWest Town26Completed11 daysPhone CallCity 311
8/20/20252249 W IOWA STWest Town36Completed9 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
10/24/20261703 N FRANCISCO AVEWest Town26Completed10 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/16/20251120 N WOOD STWest Town1Completed9 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
8/22/20252221 W SUPERIOR STWest Town36Completed7 daysInternetCity 311
9/10/20261822 W RACE AVEWest Town36Completed13 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/11/2025883 N HERMITAGE AVEWest Town1Completed11 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
3/11/20261322 N GREENVIEW AVEWest Town1Completed6 daysInternetCity 311
11/2/20262543 W CORTEZ STWest Town36Open—InternetCity 311
10/24/2026877 N HERMITAGE AVEWest Town1Completed12 daysInternetCity 311
3/15/20261300 N WOOD STWest Town1Completed2 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
4/2/20262631 W POTOMAC AVEWest Town26Completed1 dayMobile DeviceCity 311
4/2/20261624 N FAIRFIELD AVEWest Town26Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
9/20/2025927 N DAMEN AVEWest Town36Completed3 daysPhone CallCity 311
8/27/20252537 W THOMAS STWest Town36Completed7 daysInternetCity 311
10/23/20261709 N FRANCISCO AVEWest Town26Completed11 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/12/2025927 N DAMEN AVEWest Town36Completed11 daysInternetCity 311
8/26/20261413 W SUPERIOR STWest Town27Completed9 daysInternetCity 311
7/29/2025902 N CALIFORNIA AVEWest Town36Completed15 daysInternetCity 311
12/17/20252616 W EVERGREEN AVEWest Town26Completed1 dayMobile DeviceCity 311
9/12/2025921 N DAMEN AVEWest Town36Completed11 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
12/17/20251921 W CHICAGO AVEWest Town36Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
3/16/20261059 N WOOD STWest Town1Completed0 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
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