RatCity — Chicago Rat and Rodent Sightings Map

RatCity

4219 locations in the last 30 days (4402 reports) · Last sighting yesterday

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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

59,238 reports match your filters.

DateAddressNeighborhoodWardStatusResponse timeReported viaSource
10/13/20252337 E 85TH STSouth Chicago8Completed8 daysPhone CallCity 311
8/11/20263218 W FLOURNOY STEast Garfield Park24Completed8 daysPhone CallCity 311
8/19/20253223 S HALSTED STBridgeport11Completed8 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
9/17/20264813 S WOODLAWN AVEKenwood4Completed8 daysInternetCity 311
6/15/20266206 N FRANCISCO AVEWest Ridge50Completed8 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/29/20262404 S HARDING AVESouth Lawndale22Completed8 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
8/2/20263441 W 115TH PLMount Greenwood19Completed8 daysInternetCity 311
10/2/20254801 W MONTROSE AVEPortage Park45Completed8 daysPhone CallCity 311
5/18/20265742 W CORNELIA AVEPortage Park30Completed8 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
6/7/20262948 W MORSE AVEWest Ridge50Completed8 daysInternetCity 311
9/9/20254302 S HONORE STNew City15Completed8 daysPhone CallCity 311
7/16/202611035 S PULASKI RDMount Greenwood19Completed8 daysPhone CallCity 311
8/5/20252446 W LEXINGTON STNear West Side28Completed8 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
8/20/20264000 W 31ST STSouth Lawndale22Completed8 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
7/5/20263135 N OAK PARK AVEMontclare36Completed8 daysInternetCity 311
9/28/20267748 S DREXEL AVEGreater Grand Crossing8Completed8 daysPhone CallCity 311
10/2/20253079 S BONFIELD STBridgeport11Completed8 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/9/20254302 S HONORE STNew City15Completed8 daysPhone CallCity 311
10/26/202511339 S LEast Side10Completed8 daysInternetCity 311
7/7/20264634 W DEMING PLBelmont Cragin31Completed8 daysInternetCity 311
10/9/20251615 S CLARK STNear South Side3Completed8 daysInternetCity 311
7/16/20268107 S MARSHFIELD AVEAuburn Gresham17Completed8 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
9/30/20253138 W WILSON AVEAlbany Park33Completed8 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
10/13/2026617 W CORNELIA AVELake View46Completed8 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
7/7/20261031 N WINCHESTER AVEWest Town1Completed8 daysInternetCity 311
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