RatCity — Chicago Rat and Rodent Sightings Map

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826 locations in the last week (857 reports) · Last sighting 2 days 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

59,447 reports match your filters.

DateAddressNeighborhoodWardStatusResponse timeReported viaSource
10/19/20261519 W 105TH STBeverly19Completed8 daysPhone CallCity 311
10/19/20262925 W BELDEN AVELogan Square1Completed11 daysInternetCity 311
10/19/2026715 W ROSCOE STLake View44Completed14 daysPhone CallCity 311
10/19/20265155 S LONG AVEGarfield Ridge23Completed14 daysPhone CallCity 311
10/19/20263429 N PARIS AVEDunning38Completed7 daysPhone CallCity 311
10/19/20264131 N FRANCISCO AVEIrving Park33Completed8 daysInternetCity 311
10/19/20263432 N OTTAWA AVEDunning38Completed14 daysInternetCity 311
10/19/20269811 S THROOP STWashington Heights21Completed4 daysPhone CallCity 311
10/19/20263828 S LOWE AVEBridgeport11Completed11 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
10/19/20264119 N MONITOR AVEPortage Park38Completed11 daysPhone CallCity 311
10/19/20262545 W CATALPA AVELincoln Square40Completed10 daysPhone CallCity 311
10/19/20262320 N CLARK STLincoln Park43Completed10 daysInternetCity 311
10/19/20266343 S WINCHESTER AVEWest Englewood16Completed10 daysPhone CallCity 311
10/19/20265107 N LOWELL AVEAlbany Park39Completed15 daysInternetCity 311
10/19/20266339 S WINCHESTER AVEWest Englewood16Completed10 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
10/19/20266918 S KEDVALE AVEWest Lawn23Completed14 daysInternetCity 311
10/19/20261327 N ROCKWELL STWest Town26Completed9 daysInternetCity 311
10/19/20262412 W LYNDALE STLogan Square1Completed11 daysPhone CallCity 311
10/19/202611027 S GREEN STMorgan Park21Completed8 daysPhone CallCity 311
10/19/20261666 N FRANCISCO AVEWest Town26Completed9 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
10/19/202613056 S MHegewisch10Completed7 daysInternetCity 311
10/19/2026866 N RICHMOND STWest Town26Completed9 daysPhone CallCity 311
10/19/20263850 N OKETO AVEDunning38Completed11 daysInternetCity 311
10/19/20264711 S DREXEL AVEKenwood4Completed10 daysPhone CallCity 311
10/19/20265907 W WILSON AVEPortage Park38Completed11 daysPhone CallCity 311
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