RatCity — Chicago Rat and Rodent Sightings Map

RatCity

4058 locations in the last 30 days (4238 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
3/7/202621 N KILPATRICK AVEAustin28Completed3 daysInternetCity 311
3/5/20264604 W HURON STAustin28Completed5 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
3/5/2026906 S RACINE AVENear West Side28Completed5 daysInternetCity 311
3/5/20261159 S CANAL STNear West Side28Completed5 daysPhone CallCity 311
3/5/20261159 S CANAL STNear West Side28Completed5 daysPhone CallCity 311
11/8/2025520 W TAYLOR STNear West Side28Completed2 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/11/20264512 W MONROE STWest Garfield Park28Completed17 daysPhone CallCity 311
3/5/20264620 W MONROE STAustin28Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
10/16/2026217 N LAVERGNE AVEAustin28Completed6 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
3/4/20264542 W JACKSON BLVDWest Garfield Park28Completed2 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
10/26/20263523 W WALNUT STEast Garfield Park28Open—InternetCity 311
9/11/20254843 W MONROE STAustin28Completed7 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
10/26/20264550 W MAYPOLE AVEWest Garfield Park28Open—Phone CallCity 311
10/27/20251000 S CLAREMONT AVENear West Side28Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
9/11/20254450 W ADAMS STWest Garfield Park28Completed7 daysPhone CallCity 311
10/8/20264302 W MADISON STWest Garfield Park28Completed12 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
9/9/20254905 W WASHINGTON BLVDAustin28Completed9 daysPhone CallCity 311
8/18/20264835 W WEST WEST END AVEAustin28Completed10 daysPhone CallCity 311
2/28/20264429 W GLADYS AVEWest Garfield Park28Completed4 daysPhone CallCity 311
10/21/202610 N LAMON AVEAustin28Completed13 daysPhone CallCity 311
4/24/2026830 S OAKLEY BLVDNear West Side28Completed4 daysInternetCity 311
4/23/2026236 N LECLAIRE AVEAustin28Completed5 daysPhone CallCity 311
4/24/20263839 W WEST END AVEWest Garfield Park28Completed4 daysPhone CallCity 311
4/24/20263019 W LEXINGTON STEast Garfield Park28Completed4 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
4/27/20262429 W GRENSHAW STNear West Side28Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
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