RatCity — Chicago Rat and Rodent Sightings Map

RatCity

3974 locations in the last 30 days (4152 reports) · Last sighting 23 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
10/5/2025350 W OAKDALE AVELake View44Completed9 daysInternetCity 311
9/1/20261257 W ADDISON STLake View44Completed10 daysInternetCity 311
10/7/2025610 W BRIAR PLLake View44Completed7 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/17/2025839 W NEWPORT AVELake View44Completed12 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
10/9/2025823 W NEWPORT AVELake View44Completed6 daysPhone CallCity 311
10/21/2026730 W WAVELAND AVELake View46Completed12 daysInternetCity 311
10/16/20263730 N ASHLAND AVELake View47Completed14 daysPhone CallCity 311
8/20/20253526 N FREMONT STLake View44Completed15 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/18/2025930 W NEWPORT AVELake View44Completed11 daysInternetCity 311
8/25/2025531 W ADDISON STLake View46Completed11 daysInternetCity 311
10/10/20253535 N RETA AVELake View44Completed5 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
10/14/2026846 W ALDINE AVELake View44Completed14 daysInternetCity 311
8/22/20252849 N CLARK STLake View44Completed14 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/18/2025924 W NEWPORT AVELake View44Completed11 daysInternetCity 311
10/9/20251240 W GRACE STLake View44Completed6 daysInternetCity 311
10/10/20253851 N LAKEWOOD AVELake View44Completed5 daysPhone CallCity 311
10/30/2026718 W CORNELIA AVELake View46Completed10 daysInternetCity 311
8/22/20253636 N PAULINA STLake View47Completed12 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
10/30/20263350 N SOUTHPORT AVELake View44Completed10 daysInternetCity 311
9/11/20263235 N WILTON AVELake View44Completed13 daysInternetCity 311
9/11/20263500 N FREMONT STLake View44Completed13 daysInternetCity 311
9/21/20251233 W NEWPORT AVELake View44Completed8 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
10/8/20253413 N LINCOLN AVELake View47Completed7 daysInternetCity 311
10/15/20261748 W ROSCOE STLake View47Completed15 daysPhone CallCity 311
10/12/20253179 N BROADWAYLake View44Completed3 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
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