RatCity — Chicago Rat and Rodent Sightings Map

RatCity

4043 locations in the last 30 days (4223 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
8/14/20266026 N AUSTIN AVENorwood Park39Completed6 daysInternetCity 311
6/4/20265800 W ROSCOE STPortage Park30Completed6 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
5/26/20262358 W CHICAGO AVEWest Town36Completed6 daysInternetCity 311
10/21/20254921 N CENTRAL PARK AVEAlbany Park33Completed6 daysPhone CallCity 311
10/24/20255017 W WINDSOR AVEPortage Park45Completed6 daysInternetCity 311
7/4/20264338 N TROY STIrving Park33Completed6 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
11/25/20255142 S LA CROSSE AVEGarfield Ridge23Completed6 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/23/20254300 S KEATING AVEGarfield Ridge22Completed6 daysInternetCity 311
8/1/20252050 N CLIFTON AVELincoln Park43Completed6 daysPhone CallCity 311
10/11/20257751 W ROSEDALE AVENorwood Park41Completed6 daysInternetCity 311
6/23/20267143 N MELVINA AVEForest Glen45Completed6 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
7/7/20262752 W MAYPOLE AVEEast Garfield Park27Completed6 daysInternetCity 311
7/8/20262480 S BLUE ISLAND AVELower West Side25Completed6 daysInternetCity 311
7/14/20265729 S SEELEY AVEWest Englewood15Completed6 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
9/30/20252036 W 23RD STLower West Side25Completed6 daysInternetCity 311
5/5/20267729 S LUELLA AVESouth Shore7Completed6 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
8/6/20252812 E 93RD STCalumet Heights7Completed6 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
10/18/20251520 S HOMAN AVENorth Lawndale24Completed6 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
10/17/20255041 W AINSLIE STJefferson Park45Completed6 daysInternetCity 311
5/21/2026629 W 61ST PLEnglewood16Completed6 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/23/20251125 E 93RD STBurnside8Completed6 daysPhone CallCity 311
10/22/20252329 N ELSTON AVELogan Square32Completed6 daysInternetCity 311
7/10/20267401 S INDIANA AVEGreater Grand Crossing6Completed6 daysInternetCity 311
6/4/20265801 W ROSCOE STPortage Park30Completed6 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
7/8/20269214 S WOODLAWN AVEBurnside8Completed6 daysPhone CallCity 311
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