RatCity — Chicago Rat and Rodent Sightings Map

RatCity

4276 locations in the last 30 days (4462 reports) · Last sighting 20 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

59,354 reports match your filters.

DateAddressNeighborhoodWardStatusResponse timeReported viaSource
5/26/20262420 W WINNEMAC AVELincoln Square40Completed6 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
5/26/20262358 W CHICAGO AVEWest Town36Completed6 daysInternetCity 311
5/26/20264639 N CENTRAL PARK AVEAlbany Park33Completed2 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
5/26/20263417 N OZARK AVEDunning38Completed2 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
5/26/20261149 N LAWLER AVEAustin37Completed3 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
5/26/20262547 W HOMER STLogan Square1Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
5/26/20263440 W MONTROSE AVEAlbany Park33Completed2 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
5/26/20265009 W BYRON STPortage Park30Completed6 daysPhone CallCity 311
5/26/20261612 S THROOP STLower West Side25Completed2 daysInternetCity 311
5/26/20262721 W 84TH PLAshburn18Completed6 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
5/26/20261377 W GREENLEAF AVERogers Park49Completed3 daysInternetCity 311
5/26/20264908 W BELDEN AVEBelmont Cragin31Completed6 daysPhone CallCity 311
5/26/20261708 W EDMAIRE STMorgan Park21Completed3 daysPhone CallCity 311
5/26/20262112 W WALTON STWest Town36Completed6 daysInternetCity 311
5/26/20263557 W PALMER STLogan Square35Completed2 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
5/26/20266454 N WAYNE AVERogers Park49Completed6 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
5/26/20263924 W CHICAGO AVEHumboldt Park37Completed3 daysInternetCity 311
5/26/2026727 W 117TH STWest Pullman21Completed3 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
5/26/20262916 W 25TH PLSouth Lawndale24Completed6 daysInternetCity 311
5/26/20263955 N PARIS AVEDunning38Completed2 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
5/26/20263731 N OTTAWA AVEDunning38Completed2 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
5/26/2026143 W SWANN STFuller Park20Completed1 dayMobile DeviceCity 311
5/26/20264900 W AUGUSTA BLVDAustin37Completed3 daysPhone CallCity 311
5/26/20266127 S HONORE STWest Englewood15Completed2 daysPhone CallCity 311
5/26/2026726 W WAVELAND AVELake View46Completed2 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
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