RatCity — Chicago Rat and Rodent Sightings Map

RatCity

3971 locations in the last 30 days (4148 reports) · Last sighting yesterday

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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
4/28/20262705 W CARMEN AVELincoln Square40Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
1/8/20266150 S NARRAGANSETT AVEClearing13Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
2/26/2026534 W 18TH STLower West Side25Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
2/23/20269258 S NORMAL AVEWashington Heights9Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
8/27/20252241 W 71ST STChicago Lawn18Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
7/22/20268200 S CHRISTIANA AVEAshburn18Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
5/7/20262701 W 55TH STGage Park15Completed1 dayAlderman's OfficeCity 311
2/17/20265228 S RICHMOND STGage Park14Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
4/21/20265352 S WASHTENAW AVEGage Park14Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
10/1/20262926 W RASCHER AVELincoln Square39Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
3/25/20263744 N ODELL AVEDunning38Completed1 dayMobile DeviceCity 311
4/6/20265112 W 64TH PLClearing13Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
12/21/20256250 N KENMORE AVEEdgewater48Completed1 dayMobile DeviceCity 311
2/3/20264521 W 64TH STWest Lawn13Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
10/21/2025517 S OAKLEY AVENear West Side28Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
3/23/20262039 W HADDON AVEWest Town1Completed1 dayMobile DeviceCity 311
12/30/20252346 W SHAKESPEARE AVELogan Square32Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
5/4/20261831 W CHICAGO AVEWest Town36Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
8/27/20265117 N WOLCOTT AVELincoln Square40Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
2/23/20265949 S ABERDEEN STEnglewood16Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
7/22/20263614 W 86TH PLAshburn18Completed1 dayMobile DeviceCity 311
4/21/20262634 W IOWA STWest Town36Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
4/29/202610615 S SANGAMON STWashington Heights21Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
1/6/20263039 N KENMORE AVELake View44Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
1/22/20264814 W SUPERIOR STAustin37Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
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