RatCity — Chicago Rat and Rodent Sightings Map

RatCity

4165 locations in the last 30 days (4348 reports) · Last sighting yesterday

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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 — Nov 2–Nov 8, 2026

  • 🐀 948 new reports — down 7% from the week before
  • 👑 Lake View is Rat King with 67 reports
  • 📈 Biggest jump: Logan Square, up 15 from last week
  • 🏙️ The city took 9.7 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
9/19/20252145 S HALSTED STLower West Side25Completed11 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
8/30/20261618 S BLUE ISLAND AVELower West Side25Completed9 daysPhone CallCity 311
8/8/20251000 W CULLERTON STLower West Side25Completed11 daysInternetCity 311
10/2/20251538 W 17TH STLower West Side25Completed4 daysPhone CallCity 311
8/26/20262644 W 21ST STSouth Lawndale25Completed13 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
7/11/20262401 S TROY STSouth Lawndale25Completed8 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
8/29/20261330 W CULLERTON STLower West Side25Completed12 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/18/2025731 W 16TH STLower West Side25Completed11 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
8/8/20251940 S MAY STLower West Side25Completed11 daysPhone CallCity 311
12/15/20251839 S MAY STLower West Side25Completed0 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/28/20251158 W CULLERTON STLower West Side25Completed2 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
8/9/20251012 W 19TH STLower West Side25Completed10 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/29/20252504 S BLUE ISLAND AVELower West Side25Completed7 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
9/8/20262028 S CALIFORNIA AVESouth Lawndale25Completed9 daysInternetCity 311
9/2/20251629 W 19TH STLower West Side25Completed6 daysPhone CallCity 311
10/3/20253800 W 16THNorth Lawndale24Completed3 daysSalesforce Mobile AppCity 311
12/16/20252931 W 24TH STSouth Lawndale24Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
8/20/20251528 S TRIPP AVENorth Lawndale24Completed7 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
8/25/20251932 S KEDZIE AVENorth Lawndale24Completed3 daysPhone CallCity 311
10/3/20251826 S CENTRAL PARKNorth Lawndale24Completed3 daysSalesforce Mobile AppCity 311
12/11/20253853 W FILLMORE STNorth Lawndale24Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
7/2/20263812 W 13TH STNorth Lawndale24Completed6 daysInternetCity 311
7/15/20261536 S HOMAN AVENorth Lawndale24Completed2 daysInternetCity 311
8/19/20251400 S KARLOV AVENorth Lawndale24Completed7 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
12/8/20251827 S CHRISTIANA AVENorth Lawndale24Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
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