RatCity — Chicago Rat and Rodent Sightings Map

RatCity

4387 locations in the last 30 days (4581 reports) · Last sighting 13 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
9/16/20264806 N PAULINA STUptown47Completed14 daysInternetCity 311
10/2/20264806 N AVERS AVEAlbany Park33Completed13 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/22/20264805 S WOLCOTT AVENew City15Completed10 daysPhone CallCity 311
8/17/20264805 S WOLCOTT AVENew City15Completed4 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/30/20264804 S FORRESTVILLE AVEGrand Boulevard3Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
9/14/20254804 N RIDGEWAY AVEAlbany Park33Completed10 daysInternetCity 311
11/3/20254803 S WABASH AVEGrand Boulevard3Completed2 daysPhone CallCity 311
2/19/20264803 S FORRESTVILLE AVEGrand Boulevard4Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
7/21/20264802 N BERNARD STAlbany Park33Completed13 daysInternetCity 311
10/2/20254801 W MONTROSE AVEPortage Park45Completed8 daysPhone CallCity 311
10/7/20264801 S WINCHESTER AVENew City15Completed9 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/2/20254801 S WABASH AVEGrand Boulevard3Completed7 daysPhone CallCity 311
7/23/20264801 S LAVERGNE AVEGarfield Ridge22Completed4 daysPhone CallCity 311
8/14/20264801 S KOMENSKY AVEArcher Heights14Completed12 daysPhone CallCity 311
5/20/20264801 S KOMENSKY AVEArcher Heights14Completed6 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
8/28/20254801 S KNOX AVEGarfield Ridge14Completed13 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
8/18/20264801 S KNOX AVEGarfield Ridge14Completed8 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
9/9/20264801 S CALUMET AVEGrand Boulevard3Completed14 daysPhone CallCity 311
12/11/20254801 N SACRAMENTO AVEAlbany Park40Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
8/26/20264801 N MILWAUKEE AVEJefferson Park45Completed19 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/10/20264801 N CENTRAL AVEJefferson Park45Completed11 daysInternetCity 311
2/23/20264800 W WOLFRAM STBelmont Cragin31Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
7/31/20254800 W WOLFRAM STBelmont Cragin31Completed12 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
7/13/20264800 W WELLINGTON AVEBelmont Cragin31Completed9 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
10/17/20254800 W WAVELAND AVEPortage Park30Completed7 daysPhone CallCity 311
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