RatCity — Chicago Rat and Rodent Sightings Map

RatCity

4194 locations in the last 30 days (4379 reports) · Last sighting 2 days 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

58,858 reports match your filters.

DateAddressNeighborhoodWardStatusResponse timeReported viaSource
11/2/20264883 N LINCOLN AVELincoln Square40Open—InternetCity 311
12/15/20254881 W BLOOMINGDALE AVEAustin37Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
12/12/20254881 W BLOOMINGDALE AVEAustin37Completed3 daysPhone CallCity 311
8/6/20254879 N MASON AVEJefferson Park45Completed12 daysInternetCity 311
9/17/20254878 N MAGNOLIA AVEUptown47Completed13 daysInternetCity 311
10/9/20254876 N KRUGER AVEAlbany Park39Completed5 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
8/19/20264875 W BLOOMINGDALE AVEAustin37Completed14 daysPhone CallCity 311
8/4/20264875 W BLOOMINGDALE AVEAustin37Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
7/17/20264874 N MILWAUKEE AVEJefferson Park45Completed13 daysPhone CallCity 311
5/22/20264873 W BALMORAL AVEForest Glen39Completed5 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/17/20254872 N MAGNOLIA AVEUptown47Completed13 daysInternetCity 311
10/25/20264872 N MAGNOLIA AVEUptown47Open—InternetCity 311
10/2/20264870 W BERWYN AVEForest Glen39Completed7 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
11/22/20254869 N ASHLAND AVEUptown47Completed2 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
3/31/20264865 N WASHTENAW AVELincoln Square40Completed2 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
12/19/20254865 N RAVENSWOOD AVEUptown47Completed3 daysInternetCity 311
1/16/20264865 N RAVENSWOOD AVEUptown47Completed4 daysInternetCity 311
4/27/20264864 N MASON AVEJefferson Park45Completed3 daysInternetCity 311
11/3/20254863 W ST PAUL AVEAustin37Completed3 daysPhone CallCity 311
4/20/20264863 N RAVENSWOOD AVEUptown47Completed2 daysInternetCity 311
2/2/20264863 N RAVENSWOOD AVEUptown47Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
9/9/20254863 N PAULINA STUptown47Completed10 daysInternetCity 311
9/20/20254862 S LAWNDALE AVEArcher Heights14Completed13 daysInternetCity 311
8/19/20264862 N CALIFORNIA AVELincoln Square40Completed12 daysPhone CallCity 311
3/13/20264862 N ASHLAND AVEUptown47Completed3 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
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