RatCity — Chicago Rat and Rodent Sightings Map

RatCity

4241 locations in the last 30 days (4427 reports) · Last sighting 14 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 — 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

59,989 reports match your filters.

DateAddressNeighborhoodWardStatusResponse timeReported viaSource
8/27/20265738 S PRINCETON AVEEnglewood20Completed13 daysPhone CallCity 311
10/6/20251246 W 50TH STNew City20Completed4 daysInternetCity 311
10/6/2025145 W SWANN STFuller Park20Completed4 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
8/10/20256201 S RHODES AVEWoodlawn20Completed5 daysInternetCity 311
8/10/2025743 W 50TH PLNew City20Completed5 daysInternetCity 311
10/30/20265846 S CALUMET AVEWashington Park20Completed6 daysPhone CallCity 311
11/4/2026550 E 51ST STGrand Boulevard20Completed1 dayMobile DeviceCity 311
10/30/20265126 S THROOP STNew City20Completed6 daysInternetCity 311
10/28/20264731 S PAULINA STNew City20Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
10/29/20265518 S WELLS STEnglewood20Completed6 daysInternetCity 311
10/29/20264651 S HALSTED STNew City20Completed7 daysPhone CallCity 311
10/29/20266035 S RHODES AVEWoodlawn20Completed7 daysPhone CallCity 311
10/29/20265409 S BISHOP STNew City20Completed7 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
12/22/20256629 S DREXEL AVEWoodlawn20Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
12/29/2025255 W SWANN STFuller Park20Completed2 daysPhone CallCity 311
12/19/2025255 W SWANN STFuller Park20Completed3 daysPhone CallCity 311
12/27/20256541 S EBERHART AVEWoodlawn20Completed4 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/2/20255859 S CALUMET AVEWashington Park20Completed8 daysInternetCity 311
9/2/20251255 W 51ST STNew City20Completed8 daysPhone CallCity 311
12/17/20255053 S CHAMPLAIN AVEGrand Boulevard20Completed0 daysInternetCity 311
12/16/20255000 S ASHLAND AVENew City20Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
7/7/2026532 W 61ST PLEnglewood20Completed10 daysInternetCity 311
7/16/20266536 S KENWOOD AVEWoodlawn20Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
7/10/20266556 S KENWOOD AVEWoodlawn20Completed7 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
7/7/2026534 W 61ST PLEnglewood20Completed10 daysInternetCity 311
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