RatCity — Chicago Rat and Rodent Sightings Map

RatCity

4074 locations in the last 30 days (4248 reports) · Last sighting 17 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

60,241 reports match your filters.

DateAddressNeighborhoodWardStatusResponse timeReported viaSource
10/16/20251735 W 85TH STAuburn Gresham18Completed8 daysPhone CallCity 311
10/16/20254130 W NELSON STAvondale31Completed5 daysPhone CallCity 311
10/16/20251542 S SPAULDING AVENorth Lawndale24Completed8 daysPhone CallCity 311
10/16/20253417 W DRUMMOND PLLogan Square35Completed6 daysPhone CallCity 311
10/16/20252323 W ADDISON STNorth Center32Completed5 daysPhone CallCity 311
10/16/20251331 W NEWPORT AVELake View44Completed7 daysInternetCity 311
10/16/20255718 N DRAKE AVENorth Park39Completed8 daysPhone CallCity 311
10/16/202512000 S PRAIRIE AVEWest Pullman9Completed8 daysPhone CallCity 311
10/16/20255408 S LAFLIN STNew City16Completed7 daysPhone CallCity 311
10/16/20251951 N HALSTED STLincoln Park43Completed7 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
10/16/20255534 S KOSTNER AVEWest Elsdon13Completed6 daysPhone CallCity 311
10/16/2025706 E 51ST STGrand Boulevard20Completed5 daysPhone CallCity 311
10/16/20255615 S NEW ENGLAND AVEGarfield Ridge13Completed6 daysInternetCity 311
10/16/20252721 W WILCOX STEast Garfield Park27Completed5 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
10/16/20253741 W EASTWOOD AVEAlbany Park33Completed7 daysInternetCity 311
10/16/20257139 W HIGGINS AVENorwood Park41Completed7 daysPhone CallCity 311
10/16/20258233 S HOMAN AVEAshburn18Completed7 daysPhone CallCity 311
10/16/20257450 S EUCLID PKWYSouth Shore7Completed5 daysPhone CallCity 311
10/16/2025429 E 48TH STGrand Boulevard3Completed5 daysPhone CallCity 311
10/16/2025709 W 81ST STAuburn Gresham6Completed7 daysPhone CallCity 311
10/16/2025309 N MENARD AVEAustin29Completed6 daysInternetCity 311
10/16/20253744 W 86TH STAshburn18Completed7 daysPhone CallCity 311
10/16/20252515 N ROCKWELL STLogan Square1Completed6 daysPhone CallCity 311
10/16/20254419 S EMERALD AVENew City15Completed8 daysInternetCity 311
10/16/20255830 N OCONTO AVENorwood Park41Completed7 daysInternetCity 311
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