RatCity — Chicago Rat and Rodent Sightings Map

RatCity

4051 locations in the last 30 days (4225 reports) · Last sighting 19 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
10/14/20256827 S MARSHFIELD AVEWest Englewood17Completed7 daysPhone CallCity 311
10/14/20255142 S SACRAMENTO AVEGage Park14Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
10/14/20255754 W 64TH PLClearing13Completed7 daysPhone CallCity 311
10/14/20254746 S HAMLIN AVEArcher Heights14Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
10/14/20252311 W WASHINGTON BLVDNear West Side27Completed7 daysPhone CallCity 311
10/14/20255755 S HONORE STWest Englewood15Completed3 daysPhone CallCity 311
10/14/20257839 S HONORE STAuburn Gresham17Completed7 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
10/14/20252100 N LOREL AVEBelmont Cragin36Completed3 daysPhone CallCity 311
10/14/20254842 N ALBANY AVEAlbany Park33Completed8 daysInternetCity 311
10/14/20252708 E 128TH STHegewisch10Completed6 daysInternetCity 311
10/14/20252929 N LOWELL AVEHermosa31Completed8 daysPhone CallCity 311
10/14/20254101 W 25TH PLSouth Lawndale22Completed6 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
10/14/20253542 N OSCEOLA AVEDunning38Completed6 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
10/14/20251876 N MAUD AVELincoln Park43Completed6 daysInternetCity 311
10/14/20253751 N ALBANY AVEIrving Park35Completed7 daysInternetCity 311
10/14/20254300 S INDIANA AVEGrand Boulevard3Completed7 daysPhone CallCity 311
10/14/20254200 S INDIANA AVEGrand Boulevard3Completed7 daysPhone CallCity 311
10/14/20254200 S MICHIGAN AVEOakland4Completed7 daysPhone CallCity 311
10/13/20255045 W BERENICE AVEPortage Park30Completed2 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
10/13/20255621 S NAGLE AVEGarfield Ridge13Completed6 daysInternetCity 311
10/13/20255613 S NAGLE AVEGarfield Ridge13Completed6 daysInternetCity 311
10/13/20253413 W 83RD STAshburn18Completed7 daysInternetCity 311
10/13/20251514 W 71ST STWest Englewood17Completed7 daysInternetCity 311
10/13/20252817 N RICHMOND STAvondale35Completed8 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
10/13/20253720 W GRAND AVEHumboldt Park36Completed3 daysInternetCity 311
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