RatCity — Chicago Rat and Rodent Sightings Map

RatCity

4216 locations in the last 30 days (4400 reports) · Last sighting 21 hours 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

59,712 reports match your filters.

DateAddressNeighborhoodWardStatusResponse timeReported viaSource
10/16/20264021 W NORTH AVEHumboldt Park26Completed10 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
4/9/20262021 N ST LOUIS AVELogan Square26Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
4/8/20263420 W NORTH AVEHumboldt Park26Completed1 dayAlderman's OfficeCity 311
3/13/20264645 W MCLEAN AVEBelmont Cragin26Completed3 daysPhone CallCity 311
10/31/20251649 N KEDVALE AVEHumboldt Park26Completed3 daysPhone CallCity 311
10/15/20261659 N HUMBOLDT BLVDWest Town26Completed13 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
4/8/20261401 N CALIFORNIA AVEWest Town26Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
9/15/2025870 N RICHMOND STWest Town26Completed11 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
8/29/20261641 N FRANCISCO AVEWest Town26Completed12 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
4/8/20261401 N CALIFORNIA AVEWest Town26Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
4/8/20261900 N KILDARE AVEHermosa26Completed1 dayAlderman's OfficeCity 311
8/8/20253501 W CORTLAND STLogan Square26Completed5 daysInternetCity 311
9/15/20252100 N LECLAIRE AVEBelmont Cragin26Completed11 daysPhone CallCity 311
3/25/20261915 N WHIPPLE STLogan Square26Completed1 dayMobile DeviceCity 311
8/29/20261514 N HOMAN AVEHumboldt Park26Completed12 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
10/28/20253431 W DICKENS AVELogan Square26Completed6 daysPhone CallCity 311
11/24/20251759 N KEDZIE AVEHumboldt Park26Completed4 daysInternetCity 311
9/15/20251839 N HARDING AVEHermosa26Completed11 daysInternetCity 311
11/24/20251931 N HUMBOLDT BLVDLogan Square26Completed4 daysPhone CallCity 311
11/5/20251831 N LAWNDALE AVELogan Square26Completed8 daysInternetCity 311
9/7/20252036 N LACROSSE AVEBelmont Cragin26Completed12 daysInternetCity 311
8/26/20263345 W DIVISION STHumboldt Park26Completed14 daysPhone CallCity 311
3/12/20261940 N LAWNDALE AVELogan Square26Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
9/14/20251532 N ROCKWELL STWest Town26Completed12 daysPhone CallCity 311
8/8/20253240 W CORTEZ STHumboldt Park26Completed6 daysInternetCity 311
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