RatCity — Chicago Rat and Rodent Sightings Map

RatCity

4025 locations in the last 30 days (4203 reports) · Last sighting 15 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

60,312 reports match your filters.

DateAddressNeighborhoodWardStatusResponse timeReported viaSource
9/20/20252354 W WILSON AVELincoln Square47Completed10 daysInternetCity 311
9/20/20251337 W FLOURNOY STNear West Side34Completed2 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/20/20256209 W BERTEAU AVEPortage Park38Completed11 daysInternetCity 311
9/20/20251823 S LAFLIN STLower West Side25Completed10 daysInternetCity 311
9/20/20254926 N DRAKE AVEAlbany Park33Completed10 daysInternetCity 311
9/20/2025221 E IDA B WELLS DRLoop42Completed6 daysInternetCity 311
9/20/20251525 W BIRCHWOOD AVERogers Park49Completed6 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/20/20254509 N GREENVIEW AVEUptown47Completed10 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/20/20253520 W DICKENS AVELogan Square35Completed13 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/20/20252703 S TROY STSouth Lawndale25Completed2 daysInternetCity 311
9/20/20251036 W LOYOLA AVERogers Park49Completed11 daysInternetCity 311
9/20/202510850 S WABASH AVERoseland9Completed6 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/20/20258836 S PAXTON AVECalumet Heights8Completed9 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/20/20252241 N LINCOLN AVELincoln Park43Completed6 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/20/2025907 W ARGYLE STUptown48Completed6 daysInternetCity 311
9/20/20254740 W 51ST STGarfield Ridge14Completed5 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/20/2025352 W 58TH STEnglewood20Completed4 daysInternetCity 311
9/20/20252804 W MARQUETTE RDChicago Lawn15Completed10 daysInternetCity 311
9/20/20251508 N SEDGWICK STNear North Side2Completed9 daysInternetCity 311
9/20/20254342 N KIMBALL AVEIrving Park33Completed10 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/20/20254337 N KIMBALL AVEIrving Park33Completed10 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/20/20254346 N KIMBALL AVEIrving Park33Completed10 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/19/20257346 N DAMEN AVERogers Park49Completed6 daysInternetCity 311
9/19/20252222 S LEAVITT STLower West Side25Completed10 daysInternetCity 311
9/19/20253218 S ARCHER AVEMcKinley Park12Completed10 daysInternetCity 311
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