RatCity — Chicago Rat and Rodent Sightings Map

RatCity

3978 locations in the last 30 days (4156 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

60,312 reports match your filters.

DateAddressNeighborhoodWardStatusResponse timeReported viaSource
9/15/20253417 W FULTON BLVDEast Garfield Park28Completed10 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/15/20252000 W SUPERIOR STWest Town36Completed8 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
9/15/20252000 W LEE PLWest Town36Completed8 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
9/15/20253536 N NEENAH AVEDunning38Completed10 daysInternetCity 311
9/15/20255357 N MOODY AVEJefferson Park45Completed10 daysInternetCity 311
9/15/20254824 W HUTCHINSON STPortage Park45Completed10 daysInternetCity 311
9/15/20253530 W DICKENS AVELogan Square35Completed10 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
9/15/20254743 W POLK STAustin24Completed7 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/15/20254117 N FRANCISCO AVEIrving Park33Completed11 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
9/15/20251218 N MAPLEWOOD AVEWest Town26Completed11 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
9/15/20252754 W 107TH STBeverly19Completed9 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
9/15/20253233 N TROY STAvondale33Completed11 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/15/2025870 N RICHMOND STWest Town26Completed11 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
9/15/20252730 N KENMORE AVELincoln Park43Completed9 daysInternetCity 311
9/15/20251130 W DIVERSEY PKWYLake View44Completed8 daysInternetCity 311
9/15/20251636 W ROSCOE STLake View47Completed10 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
9/15/20252470 N CLARK STLincoln Park43Completed9 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
9/15/20252470 N CLARK STLincoln Park43Completed9 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
9/15/20252101 N LARAMIE AVEBelmont Cragin26Completed11 daysInternetCity 311
9/15/20257404 S INGLESIDE AVEGreater Grand Crossing6Completed9 daysInternetCity 311
9/15/20252701 W CARMEN AVELincoln Square40Completed8 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/15/20256114 N TALMAN AVEWest Ridge40Completed8 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/15/20251950 W FARGO AVERogers Park49Completed9 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
9/15/20251553 N KOSTNER AVEHumboldt Park36Completed8 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/15/20254933 N CALIFORNIA AVELincoln Square40Completed8 daysInternetCity 311
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