RatCity — Chicago Rat and Rodent Sightings Map

RatCity

4040 locations in the last 30 days (4214 reports) · Last sighting 20 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
8/1/20261301 N STATE PKWYNear North Side43Completed10 daysInternetCity 311
7/30/202663 E WALTON STNear North Side42Completed14 daysInternetCity 311
9/17/202642 E SUPERIOR STNear North Side2Completed4 daysInternetCity 311
9/26/20261335 N MOHAWK STNear North Side2Completed9 daysInternetCity 311
9/16/2026157 W DIVISION STNear North Side27Completed12 daysInternetCity 311
10/13/2026535 N WELLS STNear North Side42Completed9 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/25/2026735 W DIVISION STNear North Side27Completed14 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/14/20261537 N CLEVELAND AVENear North Side2Completed1 dayMobile DeviceCity 311
9/26/20261548 N DEARBORN STNear North Side2Completed5 daysInternetCity 311
9/30/2026116 W ELM STNear North Side27Completed19 daysInternetCity 311
9/10/20261519 N MOHAWK STNear North Side2Completed5 daysInternetCity 311
7/10/20261447 N WELLS STNear North Side2Completed12 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/16/2026939 N ORLEANS STNear North Side27Completed12 daysPhone CallCity 311
8/1/2025440 N MC CLURG CTNear North Side42Completed4 daysInternetCity 311
10/7/20261150 N LA SALLE STNear North Side27Completed16 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
10/5/2026310 W DIVISION STNear North Side2Completed15 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
7/28/20251501 N MAGNOLIA AVENear North Side27Completed8 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
8/8/2025811 N MICHIGAN AVENear North Side42Completed3 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/1/2026739 N WABASH AVENear North Side2Completed14 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/18/20261528 N CLEVELAND AVENear North Side2Completed4 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
8/2/2025708 N WELLS STNear North Side42Completed3 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
8/15/202655 W ILLINOIS STNear North Side42Completed2 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
8/14/2026208 W HURON STNear North Side42Completed3 daysPhone CallCity 311
8/17/202655 W CHESTNUT STNear North Side42Completed3 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
8/6/2026100 E WALTON STNear North Side42Completed7 daysInternetCity 311
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