RatCity — Chicago Rat and Rodent Sightings Map

RatCity

4329 locations in the last 30 days (4521 reports) · Last sighting 17 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
6/8/20262326 W ESTES AVEWest Ridge50Completed7 daysInternetCity 311
6/8/20268600 S LAFLIN STAuburn Gresham21Completed3 daysPhone CallCity 311
6/8/20262828 S PRINCETON AVEArmour Square11Completed3 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
6/8/20266039 N ELSTON AVENorwood Park39Completed3 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
6/8/20261922 N MENDELL STLogan Square32Completed2 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
6/8/20265510 N CHRISTIANA AVENorth Park39Completed3 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
6/8/20262443 S ALBANY AVESouth Lawndale25Completed2 daysPhone CallCity 311
6/8/20265758 S MELVINA AVEGarfield Ridge13Completed3 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
6/8/20266519 N ONARGA AVEEdison Park41Completed7 daysInternetCity 311
6/8/20266821 N SHERIDAN RDRogers Park49Completed7 daysPhone CallCity 311
6/8/202611129 S CHRISTIANA AVEMount Greenwood19Completed2 daysPhone CallCity 311
6/8/20268918 S CHAPPEL AVECalumet Heights8Completed3 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
6/8/20268914 S CHAPPEL AVECalumet Heights8Completed3 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
6/8/20268918 S CHAPPEL AVECalumet Heights8Completed3 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
6/8/20262901 N MENARD AVEBelmont Cragin30Completed7 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
6/8/20262900 N MENARD AVEBelmont Cragin30Completed7 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
6/8/20263001 N MENARD AVEBelmont Cragin30Completed7 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
6/8/20263000 N MENARD AVEBelmont Cragin30Completed7 daysPhone CallCity 311
6/8/20263350 W WARNER AVEIrving Park33Completed3 daysInternetCity 311
6/8/20262638 W CHICAGO AVEWest Town36Completed7 daysInternetCity 311
6/8/2026906 S RACINE AVENear West Side28Completed4 daysInternetCity 311
6/8/20269124 S PAXTON AVECalumet Heights7Completed2 daysInternetCity 311
6/8/2026635 W BRIAR PLLake View44Completed7 daysPhone CallCity 311
6/8/20265542 S MASON AVEGarfield Ridge13Completed3 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
6/8/20265519 W PENSACOLA AVEPortage Park45Completed7 daysPhone CallCity 311
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