RatCity — Chicago Rat and Rodent Sightings Map

RatCity

4194 locations in the last 30 days (4378 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
10/8/20254861 W CORNELIA AVEPortage Park31Completed12 daysPhone CallCity 311
12/26/20254861 W ADDISON STPortage Park31Completed5 daysInternetCity 311
9/30/20254861 N OAK PARK AVENorwood Park41Completed7 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
9/4/20264861 N OAK PARK AVENorwood Park41Completed10 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/28/20264861 N MERRIMAC AVEJefferson Park45Completed11 daysInternetCity 311
9/22/20254861 N MERRIMAC AVEJefferson Park45Completed8 daysInternetCity 311
11/12/20254860 W EDDY STPortage Park31Completed2 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
10/13/20254860 N RUTHERFORD AVENorwood Park41Completed4 daysInternetCity 311
7/25/20254859 W DAKIN STPortage Park45Completed7 daysInternetCity 311
10/6/20264859 S UNION AVENew City15Completed10 daysPhone CallCity 311
12/8/20254859 S UNION AVENew City15Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
9/24/20254859 S UNION AVENew City15Completed7 daysPhone CallCity 311
8/20/20254859 S UNION AVENew City15Completed8 daysPhone CallCity 311
5/12/20264859 S UNION AVENew City15Completed3 daysPhone CallCity 311
6/18/20264859 S UNION AVENew City15Completed5 daysPhone CallCity 311
2/19/20264859 S UNION AVENew City15Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
6/11/20264859 N TROY STAlbany Park33Completed3 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/7/20264859 N CENTRAL AVEJefferson Park45Completed14 daysInternetCity 311
11/11/20254858 W ST PAUL AVEAustin37Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
9/22/20264858 N MILWAUKEE AVEJefferson Park45Completed13 daysInternetCity 311
4/9/20264858 N ASHLAND AVEUptown47Completed1 dayMobile DeviceCity 311
7/30/20254857 N WESTERN AVELincoln Square40Completed8 daysInternetCity 311
8/30/20254857 N TALMAN AVELincoln Square40Completed12 daysInternetCity 311
9/26/20254857 N ROCKWELL STLincoln Square40Completed10 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
3/24/20264857 N ROCKWELL STLincoln Square40Completed1 dayMobile DeviceCity 311
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