RatCity — Chicago Rat and Rodent Sightings Map

RatCity

3986 locations in the last 30 days (4165 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.

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59,447 reports match your filters.

DateAddressNeighborhoodWardStatusResponse timeReported viaSource
9/15/20261824 N RICHMOND STLogan Square26Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
9/15/20261822 N RICHMOND STLogan Square26Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
10/20/20262229 N LACROSSE AVEBelmont Cragin26Completed13 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
8/18/20262621 W HIRSCH STWest Town26Completed10 daysPhone CallCity 311
8/19/20262023 N LECLAIRE AVEBelmont Cragin26Completed13 daysInternetCity 311
7/24/20252628 W POTOMAC AVEWest Town26Completed12 daysPhone CallCity 311
8/1/20261656 N FRANCISCO AVEWest Town26Completed12 daysInternetCity 311
8/5/20254716 W SHAKESPEARE AVEBelmont Cragin26Completed6 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
7/22/20261429 N RIDGEWAY AVEHumboldt Park26Completed8 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
6/27/20262714 W DIVISION STWest Town26Completed4 daysInternetCity 311
8/18/20261639 N SAWYER AVEHumboldt Park26Completed10 daysInternetCity 311
8/3/20253439 W PIERCE AVEHumboldt Park26Completed5 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
7/28/20251219 N CALIFORNIA AVEWest Town26Completed9 daysInternetCity 311
9/15/20261627 N WHIPPLE STHumboldt Park26Completed13 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
8/5/20252117 N LAVERGNE AVEBelmont Cragin26Completed6 daysInternetCity 311
9/23/20261666 N FRANCISCO AVEWest Town26Completed9 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
7/28/20253620 W MCLEAN AVELogan Square26Completed9 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/15/20262058 N PULASKI RDHermosa26Completed13 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/21/20261905 N KOSTNER AVEHermosa26Completed11 daysInternetCity 311
7/22/20263216 W AUGUSTA BLVDHumboldt Park26Completed8 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
8/2/20252620 W POTOMAC AVEWest Town26Completed6 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
8/1/20252607 W DIVISION STWest Town26Completed7 daysInternetCity 311
6/26/20261730 N KEELER AVEHumboldt Park26Completed5 daysPhone CallCity 311
7/6/20264618 W SHAKESPEARE AVEBelmont Cragin26Completed7 daysPhone CallCity 311
7/30/20252428 W THOMAS STWest Town26Completed8 daysInternetCity 311
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