RatCity — Chicago Rat and Rodent Sightings Map

RatCity

4344 locations in the last 30 days (4537 reports) · Last sighting 16 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

59,088 reports match your filters.

DateAddressNeighborhoodWardStatusResponse timeReported viaSource
6/9/20264346 S KARLOV AVEArcher Heights14Completed2 daysInternetCity 311
6/9/2026906 S CENTRAL PARK AVENorth Lawndale24Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
6/9/20262100 W LELAND AVELincoln Square47Completed6 daysInternetCity 311
6/9/20265244 W NELSON STBelmont Cragin31Completed2 daysPhone CallCity 311
6/9/20262738 W FARGO AVEWest Ridge50Completed2 daysInternetCity 311
6/9/20264408S S TALMAN AVEBrighton Park12Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
6/9/2026156 N LOCKWOOD AVEAustin37Completed6 daysInternetCity 311
6/9/20264342 S STATE STGrand Boulevard3Completed2 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
6/9/20263230 W OLIVE AVENorth Park39Completed2 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
6/9/20267205 S HARDING AVEWest Lawn23Completed3 daysInternetCity 311
6/9/20265515 N SAWYER AVENorth Park39Completed2 daysPhone CallCity 311
6/9/20267228 S LAWNDALE AVEWest Lawn23Completed3 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
6/9/20263806 N DAMEN AVENorth Center47Completed6 daysPhone CallCity 311
6/9/20266819 W DEVON AVENorwood Park41Completed6 daysInternetCity 311
6/9/20263641 W MARQUETTE RDWest Lawn23Completed3 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
6/9/20265045 N MENARD AVEJefferson Park45Completed6 daysInternetCity 311
6/9/20266349 S HONORE STWest Englewood15Completed2 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
6/9/20263943 N MOZART STIrving Park35Completed2 daysInternetCity 311
6/9/20266351 S HONORE STWest Englewood15Completed2 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
6/9/20264523 S ELLIS AVEKenwood4Completed2 daysInternetCity 311
6/9/20266149 N BROADWAYEdgewater48Completed8 daysInternetCity 311
6/9/20264541 S INDIANA AVEGrand Boulevard3Completed2 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
6/9/2026534 W DICKENS AVELincoln Park43Completed6 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
6/9/20267013 S GREEN STEnglewood16Completed2 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
6/9/202611606 S ELIZABETH STWest Pullman21Completed2 daysInternetCity 311
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