RatCity — Chicago Rat and Rodent Sightings Map

RatCity

3997 locations in the last 30 days (4177 reports) · Last sighting 2 days 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

59,447 reports match your filters.

DateAddressNeighborhoodWardStatusResponse timeReported viaSource
4/27/20265434 S WINCHESTER AVENew City16Completed3 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
4/27/20263229 N NEWLAND AVEDunning36Completed1 dayAlderman's OfficeCity 311
4/27/20261226 W MONTANA STLincoln Park32Completed2 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
4/27/20264554 N WOLCOTT AVELincoln Square47Completed2 daysInternetCity 311
4/27/20263547 S DAMEN AVEMcKinley Park12Completed1 dayMobile DeviceCity 311
4/27/20265640 N NAGLE AVENorwood Park41Completed2 daysInternetCity 311
4/27/2026456 W 26TH STBridgeport11Completed1 dayMobile DeviceCity 311
4/27/202612509 S STEWART AVEWest Pullman9Completed1 dayAlderman's OfficeCity 311
4/27/20267154 S SAWYER AVEChicago Lawn17Completed2 daysPhone CallCity 311
4/27/20267212 S CENTRAL PARK AVEWest Lawn23Completed1 dayAlderman's OfficeCity 311
4/27/20266439 S MAY STEnglewood16Completed3 daysInternetCity 311
4/27/20262008 S ALLPORT STLower West Side25Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
4/27/20261325 E 52ND STHyde Park4Completed2 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
4/27/2026825 E 89TH PLChatham8Completed1 dayMobile DeviceCity 311
4/27/20261918 S WASHTENAW AVESouth Lawndale25Completed2 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
4/27/202610401 S RACINE AVEWashington Heights21Completed2 daysInternetCity 311
4/27/20266901 W ARMITAGE AVEAustin29Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
4/27/2026223 W GOETHE STNear North Side2Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
4/27/20264109 W 31ST STSouth Lawndale22Completed1 dayAlderman's OfficeCity 311
4/27/20264832 W WASHINGTON BLVDAustin28Completed1 dayMobile DeviceCity 311
4/27/202639 E 102ND PLRoseland9Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
4/27/20262641 W PETERSON AVEWest Ridge40Completed2 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
4/27/20268047 S LAFLIN STAuburn Gresham17Completed4 daysPhone CallCity 311
4/27/20263816 N WILTON AVELake View46Completed3 daysInternetCity 311
4/27/20266488 N NEWCASTLE AVENorwood Park41Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
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