RatCity — Chicago Rat and Rodent Sightings Map

RatCity

4346 locations in the last 30 days (4537 reports) · Last sighting 22 hours ago

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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

58,858 reports match your filters.

DateAddressNeighborhoodWardStatusResponse timeReported viaSource
12/12/20254931 W ADAMS STAustin28Completed3 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
9/28/20264931 W ADAMS STAustin28Completed17 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
1/23/20264931 S ARTESIAN AVEGage Park15Completed3 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
7/31/20264931 S ARTESIAN AVEGage Park15Completed18 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
10/17/20264931 N TRIPP AVEAlbany Park39Completed11 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
2/17/20264931 N ST LOUIS AVEAlbany Park33Completed2 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
7/24/20264931 N MILWAUKEE AVEJefferson Park45Completed7 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
1/9/20264931 N MASON AVEJefferson Park45Completed3 daysPhone CallCity 311
8/3/20264931 N MASON AVEJefferson Park45Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
2/19/20264931 N MASON AVEJefferson Park45Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
10/28/20254931 N MASON AVEJefferson Park45Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
1/9/20264931 N KENTUCKY AVEAlbany Park39Completed3 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/9/20264931 N KENTUCKY AVEAlbany Park39Completed15 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/24/20264931 N KEELER AVEAlbany Park39Completed5 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
11/16/20254931 N KEDZIE AVEAlbany Park33Completed0 daysInternetCity 311
10/25/20264931 N KEDZIE AVEAlbany Park33Open—InternetCity 311
7/13/20264931 N HOYNE AVELincoln Square40Completed8 daysInternetCity 311
10/20/20264931 N DRAKE AVEAlbany Park33Completed13 daysPhone CallCity 311
10/20/20264931 N DRAKE AVEAlbany Park33Completed13 daysPhone CallCity 311
5/28/20264930 W WAVELAND AVEPortage Park30Completed6 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/22/20254930 W ST PAUL AVEAustin37Completed3 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
11/16/20254930 W NEWPORT AVEPortage Park31Completed1 dayMobile DeviceCity 311
8/31/20264930 W IOWA STAustin37Completed15 daysPhone CallCity 311
10/8/20264930 W EDDY STPortage Park31Completed15 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
3/7/20254930 S LANGLEY AVEGrand Boulevard4Completed3 daysInternetCity 311
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