RatCity — Chicago Rat and Rodent Sightings Map

RatCity

4121 locations in the last 30 days (4299 reports) · Last sighting 13 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
10/7/202533 W DELAWARE PLNear North Side42Completed2 daysInternetCity 311
7/6/2026628 S KOSTNER AVEWest Garfield Park24Completed2 daysPhone CallCity 311
11/17/20251649 N KILDARE AVEHumboldt Park26Completed2 daysPhone CallCity 311
3/2/20261117 W 25TH STBridgeport11Completed2 daysInternetCity 311
5/16/20264030 W 58TH PLWest Elsdon13Completed2 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
10/21/20253555 S COTTAGE GROVE AVEOakland4Completed2 daysPhone CallCity 311
11/12/20258839 S EXCHANGE AVESouth Chicago10Completed2 daysWalk-inCity 311
5/20/20268706 S COMMERCIAL AVESouth Chicago10Completed2 daysInternetCity 311
9/16/20252747 S AVERS AVESouth Lawndale22Completed2 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
4/27/20264585 N MOODY AVEPortage Park38Completed2 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
4/20/20261901 E 71ST PLSouth Shore5Completed2 daysInternetCity 311
4/6/20265959 S THROOP STWest Englewood16Completed2 daysPhone CallCity 311
1/18/20262627 W LAWRENCE AVELincoln Square40Completed2 daysPhone CallCity 311
4/18/20261522 W HURON STWest Town1Completed2 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
3/4/20263545 S UNION AVEBridgeport11Completed2 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
5/4/20264655 N MALDEN STUptown46Completed2 daysInternetCity 311
11/17/20254300 S ST LOUIS AVEBrighton Park12Completed2 daysPhone CallCity 311
7/20/20265700 W EDDY STPortage Park30Completed2 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
4/28/20261900 S GROVE STArmour Square11Completed2 daysInternetCity 311
10/28/20257340 N CLARK STRogers Park49Completed2 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
11/23/20251701 N MOODY AVEAustin29Completed2 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
5/31/20261415 E 54TH PLHyde Park5Completed2 daysInternetCity 311
5/3/20264949 N NEENAH AVENorwood Park41Completed2 daysPhone CallCity 311
3/3/20262700 N ST LOUIS AVELogan Square35Completed2 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
12/22/20253200 N CENTRAL PARK AVEAvondale30Completed2 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
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