RatCity — Chicago Rat and Rodent Sightings Map

RatCity

4312 locations in the last 30 days (4504 reports) · Last sighting yesterday

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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.

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DateAddressNeighborhoodWardStatusResponse timeReported viaSource
10/27/20262615 W 55TH STGage Park15Open—Alderman's OfficeCity 311
10/27/20265350 N NOTTINGHAM AVENorwood Park41Open—InternetCity 311
10/27/20268009 S DREXEL AVEChatham8Open—Alderman's OfficeCity 311
10/27/20268015 S DREXEL AVEChatham8Open—Alderman's OfficeCity 311
10/27/20268011 S DREXEL AVEChatham8Open—Phone CallCity 311
10/27/20262530 N KILDARE AVEHermosa31Open—Phone CallCity 311
10/27/20261229 S AVERS AVENorth Lawndale24Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
10/27/20266218 S CALIFORNIA AVEChicago Lawn16Open—InternetCity 311
10/27/20261916 S LAWNDALE AVENorth Lawndale24Open—Phone CallCity 311
10/27/2026450 W BRIAR PLLake View44Open—InternetCity 311
10/27/20262923 W 25TH PLSouth Lawndale24Open—Alderman's OfficeCity 311
10/27/20262323 W NELSON STNorth Center32Open—Phone CallCity 311
10/27/20263230 W MARQUETTE RDChicago Lawn14Open—Mobile DeviceCity 311
10/27/20268430 S HERMITAGE AVEAuburn Gresham18Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
10/27/20261920 S LAFLIN STLower West Side25Open—Mobile DeviceCity 311
10/27/20265200 S LOTUS AVEGarfield Ridge23Open—Phone CallCity 311
10/27/20263541 N LOWELL AVEIrving Park30Open—Phone CallCity 311
10/27/20264254 N KIMBALL AVEIrving Park33Open—Alderman's OfficeCity 311
10/27/20266537 W 60TH PLClearing13Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
10/27/20262340 W 22ND PLLower West Side25Open—Phone CallCity 311
10/27/20262241 S KOSTNER AVENorth Lawndale22Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
10/27/20265810 S MEADE AVEGarfield Ridge13Open—InternetCity 311
10/27/20262040 W LE MOYNE STWest Town1Open—InternetCity 311
10/27/20262428 W THOMAS STWest Town26Open—Phone CallCity 311
10/27/20266354 S LAMON AVEClearing13Open—Phone CallCity 311
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