RatCity — Chicago Rat and Rodent Sightings Map

RatCity

3990 locations in the last 30 days (4168 reports) · Last sighting 18 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
8/15/2025146 E 120TH STWest Pullman9Completed12 daysPhone CallCity 311
12/17/202512708 S PEORIA STWest Pullman9Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
8/24/202510058 S YALE AVERoseland9Completed10 daysPhone CallCity 311
8/15/202510010 S VERNON AVERoseland9Completed12 daysInternetCity 311
8/15/202510059 S FOREST AVERoseland9Completed12 daysInternetCity 311
8/30/2025146 E 120TH STWest Pullman9Completed11 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/26/202511727 S CALUMET AVEWest Pullman9Completed11 daysPhone CallCity 311
7/7/202612712 S PEORIA STWest Pullman9Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
8/22/202510014 S WENTWORTH AVERoseland9Completed12 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
10/23/20269635 S LA SALLE STRoseland9Completed12 daysPhone CallCity 311
7/1/202612604 S EDBROOKE AVEWest Pullman9Completed7 daysPhone CallCity 311
8/22/20259952 S WENTWORTH AVERoseland9Completed12 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
8/25/202510017 S PARNELL AVEWashington Heights9Completed9 daysInternetCity 311
8/15/2025516 W 97TH STWashington Heights9Completed12 daysInternetCity 311
8/16/20259518 S PRAIRIE AVERoseland9Completed11 daysInternetCity 311
8/26/202512300 S EMERALD AVEWest Pullman9Completed8 daysInternetCity 311
10/8/20269531 S PERRY AVERoseland9Completed14 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
10/22/20269928 S NORMAL AVEWashington Heights9Completed13 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/1/2025391 E KENSINGTON AVEWest Pullman9Completed9 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/24/2025251 E 121ST PLWest Pullman9Completed5 daysInternetCity 311
10/21/202610136 S NORMAL AVEWashington Heights9Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
12/5/202510611 S INDIANA AVERoseland9Completed3 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/24/2025251 E 121ST STWest Pullman9Completed5 daysInternetCity 311
11/3/202611725 S INDIANA AVEWest Pullman9Open—Mobile DeviceCity 311
9/26/202511437 S MICHIGAN AVERoseland9Completed11 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
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