RatCity — Chicago Rat and Rodent Sightings Map

RatCity

4193 locations in the last 30 days (4377 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
8/6/20254850 S LAKE PARK AVEKenwood4Completed6 daysInternetCity 311
5/25/20264850 S HERMITAGE AVENew City15Completed3 daysInternetCity 311
5/7/20264850 N WINCHESTER AVELincoln Square47Completed1 dayMobile DeviceCity 311
11/26/20254850 N WINCHESTER AVELincoln Square47Completed4 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
10/20/20264850 N OAKLEY AVELincoln Square47Completed14 daysInternetCity 311
10/11/20264850 N KOSTNER AVEAlbany Park39Completed11 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
8/15/20264850 N KIMBALL AVEAlbany Park33Completed12 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
7/29/20264850 N KIMBALL AVEAlbany Park33Completed9 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
8/31/20254850 N CHRISTIANA AVEAlbany Park33Completed8 daysPhone CallCity 311
4/18/20264849 W IRVING PARK RDPortage Park45Completed2 daysInternetCity 311
5/15/20264849 S SEELEY AVENew City15Completed4 daysPhone CallCity 311
5/19/20264849 S SEELEY AVENew City15Completed7 daysPhone CallCity 311
8/29/20254849 S PAULINA STNew City20Completed12 daysInternetCity 311
8/24/20254849 S PAULINA STNew City20Completed4 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
8/30/20264849 S LECLAIRE AVEGarfield Ridge22Completed4 daysPhone CallCity 311
5/8/20264849 S DAMEN AVENew City15Completed3 daysInternetCity 311
1/9/20264849 N SPAULDING AVEAlbany Park33Completed3 daysInternetCity 311
9/29/20264849 N RIDGEWAY AVEAlbany Park33Completed14 daysPhone CallCity 311
10/20/20264849 N OAKLEY AVELincoln Square47Completed13 daysInternetCity 311
6/25/20264849 N KILBOURN AVEAlbany Park39Completed4 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/15/20264849 N KENMORE AVEUptown46Completed10 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/23/20264849 N KEDVALE AVEAlbany Park39Completed6 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
11/9/20254849 N CENTRAL AVEJefferson Park45Completed4 daysInternetCity 311
9/10/20264849 N CENTRAL AVEJefferson Park45Completed11 daysInternetCity 311
8/11/20264848 W FULTON STAustin28Completed13 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
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