RatCity — Chicago Rat and Rodent Sightings Map

RatCity

4199 locations in the last 30 days (4383 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 — Nov 2–Nov 8, 2026

  • 🐀 948 new reports — down 7% from the week before
  • 👑 Lake View is Rat King with 67 reports
  • 📈 Biggest jump: Logan Square, up 15 from last week
  • 🏙️ The city took 9.7 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
11/8/20261406 W THORNDALE AVEEdgewater48Open—Mobile DeviceCity 311
11/8/20265944 N GLENWOOD AVEEdgewater48Open—Mobile DeviceCity 311
11/8/20261405 W ELMDALE AVEEdgewater48Open—Mobile DeviceCity 311
11/8/20262201 W FARRAGUT AVELincoln Square40Open—InternetCity 311
11/8/20262845 N CENTRAL PARK AVEAvondale35Open—InternetCity 311
11/8/20264416 N LA CROSSE AVEPortage Park45Open—Mobile DeviceCity 311
11/8/20263511 S HOYNE AVEMcKinley Park12Open—InternetCity 311
11/8/20263500 N CICERO AVEPortage Park31Open—Mobile DeviceCity 311
11/8/20261914 W DIVISION STWest Town1Open—Mobile DeviceCity 311
11/8/20265322 W VAN BUREN STAustin29Open—InternetCity 311
11/8/20262234 N SPAULDING AVELogan Square35Open—Mobile DeviceCity 311
11/8/20263622 W IRVING PARK RDIrving Park45Open—Mobile DeviceCity 311
11/8/20262829 W SHERWIN AVEWest Ridge50Open—Mobile DeviceCity 311
11/8/20264107 N PLAINFIELD AVEDunning38Open—Phone CallCity 311
11/8/20262830 W CHASE AVEWest Ridge50Open—InternetCity 311
11/8/20261918 N RIDGEWAY AVELogan Square26Open—Mobile DeviceCity 311
11/8/20266009 W PATTERSON AVEDunning38Open—Phone CallCity 311
11/8/20265241 N ROCKWELL STLincoln Square40Open—Mobile DeviceCity 311
11/8/20265305 N LOCKWOOD AVEJefferson Park45Open—InternetCity 311
11/8/20265062 N KIMBALL AVENorth Park39Open—InternetCity 311
11/8/20263138 N NAGLE AVEBelmont Cragin36Open—InternetCity 311
11/8/20266435 W BELMONT AVEBelmont Cragin36Open—InternetCity 311
11/8/20263145 N NATCHEZ AVEBelmont Cragin36Open—InternetCity 311
11/8/20263141 N NATCHEZ AVEBelmont Cragin36Open—InternetCity 311
11/8/20264033 S TALMAN AVEBrighton Park12Open—Mobile DeviceCity 311
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