RatCity — Chicago Rat and Rodent Sightings Map

RatCity

4067 locations in the last 30 days (4249 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
8/5/20263821 N SOUTHPORT AVELake View44Completed2 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/11/20253821 N RIDGEWAY AVEIrving Park30Completed11 daysPhone CallCity 311
5/12/20263821 N OSCEOLA AVEDunning38Completed3 daysPhone CallCity 311
3/9/20263821 N KEYSTONE AVEIrving Park30Completed0 daysInternetCity 311
9/14/20263820 W VAN BUREN STWest Garfield Park28Completed16 daysPhone CallCity 311
7/24/20253820 W OHIO STHumboldt Park27Completed8 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/21/20263820 W NORTH AVEHumboldt Park26Completed11 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
12/20/20253820 W MARQUETTE RDWest Lawn23Completed2 daysPhone CallCity 311
6/26/20263820 W GEORGE STAvondale31Completed5 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
6/11/20263820 W FULTON STWest Garfield Park37Completed4 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/24/20263820 W 86TH STAshburn18Completed12 daysPhone CallCity 311
8/14/20263820 W 46TH PLArcher Heights14Completed12 daysPhone CallCity 311
5/7/20263820 S WOLCOTT AVEMcKinley Park12Completed4 daysPhone CallCity 311
6/4/20263820 S LOWE AVEBridgeport11Completed1 dayAlderman's OfficeCity 311
8/12/20253820 S LOWE AVEBridgeport11Completed3 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
10/22/20263820 N WAYNE AVELake View44Completed11 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
1/5/20263820 N WAYNE AVELake View44Completed1 dayMobile DeviceCity 311
2/10/20263820 N PONTIAC AVEDunning38Completed1 dayMobile DeviceCity 311
3/5/20263820 N CICERO AVEPortage Park45Completed1 dayMobile DeviceCity 311
4/29/20263819 W POLK STWest Garfield Park24Completed5 daysPhone CallCity 311
12/21/20253819 W OGDEN AVENorth Lawndale24Completed1 dayMobile DeviceCity 311
7/30/20253819 W FILLMORE STNorth Lawndale24Completed12 daysInternetCity 311
7/20/20263819 W 84TH STAshburn18Completed3 daysPhone CallCity 311
7/30/20263819 W 83RD PLAshburn18Completed12 daysPhone CallCity 311
4/2/20263819 W 82ND STAshburn18Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
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