RatCity — Chicago Rat and Rodent Sightings Map

RatCity

4145 locations in the last 30 days (4331 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

59,447 reports match your filters.

DateAddressNeighborhoodWardStatusResponse timeReported viaSource
6/17/20263139 W JARLATH STWest Ridge50Completed6 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/25/20253000 W PRATT BLVDWest Ridge50Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
10/28/20256332 N TALMAN AVEWest Ridge50Completed2 daysPhone CallCity 311
6/7/20262144 W ESTES AVEWest Ridge50Completed4 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
6/5/20266417 N KEDZIE AVEWest Ridge50Completed4 daysPhone CallCity 311
10/24/20256301 N MONTICELLO AVENorth Park50Completed6 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
6/23/20262734 W COYLE AVEWest Ridge50Completed2 daysInternetCity 311
8/24/20262318 W JARVIS AVEWest Ridge50Completed2 daysInternetCity 311
10/29/20252254 W ARTHUR AVEWest Ridge50Completed2 daysInternetCity 311
10/29/20256422 N LEAVITT STWest Ridge50Completed5 daysInternetCity 311
9/29/20266517 N ARTESIANWest Ridge50Completed10 daysSalesforce Mobile AppCity 311
6/17/20263141 W JARLATH STWest Ridge50Completed6 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
6/5/20266650 N WASHTENAW AVEWest Ridge50Completed4 daysInternetCity 311
6/15/20265830 N WHIPPLE STWest Ridge50Completed8 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
6/15/20263025 W SHERWIN AVEWest Ridge50Completed8 daysPhone CallCity 311
11/4/20255831 N WHIPPLE STWest Ridge50Completed3 daysInternetCity 311
11/5/20256242 N MCCORMICK RDNorth Park50Completed2 daysspot-open311-Chicago+WorksCity 311
6/1/20262720 W JEROME STWest Ridge50Completed3 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
6/14/20262728 W ESTES AVEWest Ridge50Completed9 daysPhone CallCity 311
8/16/20262931 W JARVIS AVEWest Ridge50Completed10 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/29/20266507 N BELL AVEWest Ridge50Completed10 daysInternetCity 311
6/23/20267421 N CLAREMONTWest Ridge50Completed2 daysSalesforce Mobile AppCity 311
7/26/20256212 N CLAREMONT AVEWest Ridge50Completed6 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
6/2/20267341 N CALIFORNIA AVEWest Ridge50Completed2 daysPhone CallCity 311
10/1/20262803 W BIRCHWOOD AVEWest Ridge50Completed14 daysPhone CallCity 311
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