RatCity — Chicago Rat and Rodent Sightings Map

RatCity

4263 locations in the last 30 days (4452 reports) · Last sighting 23 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
8/24/2026124 N MOZART STEast Garfield Park27Completed8 daysPhone CallCity 311
8/26/202610141 S CALIFORNIA AVEBeverly19Completed8 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
8/10/20266425 N BELL AVEWest Ridge50Completed8 daysInternetCity 311
9/24/20254423 S CALUMET AVEGrand Boulevard3Completed8 daysPhone CallCity 311
10/16/20251513 S HARDING AVENorth Lawndale24Completed8 daysPhone CallCity 311
10/13/2025714 W 19TH PLLower West Side25Completed8 daysInternetCity 311
10/20/20251514 S KILBOURN AVENorth Lawndale24Completed8 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/30/20257800 S UNION AVEAuburn Gresham17Completed8 daysPhone CallCity 311
8/21/20256435 S LA CROSSE AVEClearing13Completed8 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
8/18/20254249 N CENTRAL PARK AVEIrving Park33Completed8 daysInternetCity 311
8/5/20258019 S LOOMIS STAuburn Gresham17Completed8 daysPhone CallCity 311
7/28/20253350 W FULTON BLVDEast Garfield Park28Completed8 daysPhone CallCity 311
7/8/20264426 N KASSON AVEAlbany Park39Completed8 daysInternetCity 311
9/30/20255755 W EASTWOOD AVEPortage Park38Completed8 daysInternetCity 311
8/18/20251958 W 83RD STAuburn Gresham17Completed8 daysPhone CallCity 311
10/11/20267952 S CHAPPEL AVESouth Chicago8Completed8 daysPhone CallCity 311
6/28/20263015 N BROADWAYLake View44Completed8 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/30/2025616 W SCHUBERT AVELincoln Park43Completed8 daysInternetCity 311
10/13/20264652 N KENMORE AVEUptown46Completed8 daysInternetCity 311
8/20/20254534 N MEADE AVEPortage Park38Completed8 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
8/19/20258330 S ADA STAuburn Gresham17Completed8 daysInternetCity 311
6/29/20264143 N FRANCISCO AVEIrving Park33Completed8 daysPhone CallCity 311
10/22/20256140 N WASHTENAW AVEWest Ridge40Completed8 daysPhone CallCity 311
8/20/20254468 N ELSTON AVEIrving Park39Completed8 daysPhone CallCity 311
6/30/20261500 N KOLIN AVEHumboldt Park36Completed8 daysPhone CallCity 311
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