RatCity — Chicago Rat and Rodent Sightings Map

RatCity

4278 locations in the last 30 days (4468 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 — Oct 26–Nov 1, 2026

  • 🐀 1,021 new reports — down 9% from the week before
  • 👑 Lake View is Rat King with 70 reports
  • 📈 Biggest jump: Lincoln Park, up 15 from last week
  • 🏙️ The city took 11.2 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

58,615 reports match your filters.

DateAddressNeighborhoodWardStatusResponse timeReported viaSource
8/28/20255056 N WOLCOTT AVELincoln Square40Completed13 daysInternetCity 311
3/31/20265056 N MOODY AVEJefferson Park45Completed2 daysInternetCity 311
6/18/20265056 N MOODY AVEJefferson Park45Completed7 daysInternetCity 311
8/27/20255056 N LONG AVEJefferson Park45Completed12 daysInternetCity 311
5/8/20265055 W WASHINGTON BLVDAustin28Completed4 daysInternetCity 311
8/12/20255055 W HUTCHINSON STPortage Park45Completed15 daysInternetCity 311
10/21/20255055 W CRYSTALAustin37Completed6 daysSalesforce Mobile AppCity 311
8/27/20265055 S LAMON AVEGarfield Ridge23Completed13 daysInternetCity 311
6/26/20265055 S LAMON AVEGarfield Ridge23Completed4 daysPhone CallCity 311
10/20/20265055 S LACROSSE AVEGarfield Ridge23Completed2 daysPhone CallCity 311
3/5/20265055 S KNOX AVEGarfield Ridge14Completed4 daysInternetCity 311
8/13/20265055 S ARCHER AVEArcher Heights14Completed4 daysPhone CallCity 311
6/11/20265055 N WOLCOTT AVELincoln Square40Completed6 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
12/22/20255055 N WOLCOTT AVELincoln Square40Completed1 dayMobile DeviceCity 311
12/16/20255055 N WOLCOTT AVELincoln Square40Completed1 dayMobile DeviceCity 311
8/29/20265055 N TROY STAlbany Park33Completed13 daysInternetCity 311
10/31/20265055 N TROY STAlbany Park33Open—Mobile DeviceCity 311
8/5/20255055 N NEW ENGLAND AVENorwood Park41Completed14 daysPhone CallCity 311
8/18/20265055 N NEW ENGLAND AVENorwood Park41Completed8 daysPhone CallCity 311
8/9/20255055 N MELVINA AVEJefferson Park45Completed11 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
7/16/20265055 N KOSTNER AVEAlbany Park39Completed7 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
10/31/20265055 N DAMEN AVELincoln Square40Open—InternetCity 311
8/7/20255055 N CLARK STUptown47Completed13 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
1/13/20265054 W MONTANA STBelmont Cragin31Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
9/25/20255054 W EDDY STPortage Park31Completed7 daysInternetCity 311
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