RatCity — Chicago Rat and Rodent Sightings Map

RatCity

4028 locations in the last 30 days (4208 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
4/22/20263558 S MAPLEWOOD AVEBrighton Park12Completed6 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
4/22/20263306 N OAKLEY AVENorth Center32Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
4/22/20264212 N MILWAUKEE AVEPortage Park45Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
4/22/20261523 W MONTANA AVELincoln Park32Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
4/22/20264317 N MELVINA AVEPortage Park38Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
4/22/20264037 S MAPLEWOOD AVEBrighton Park12Completed6 daysInternetCity 311
4/22/20265322 W DEMING PLBelmont Cragin31Completed2 daysInternetCity 311
4/22/20264919 W PATTERSON AVEPortage Park30Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
4/22/2026878 N RICHMOND STWest Town26Completed2 daysInternetCity 311
4/22/20267505 N SHERIDAN RDRogers Park49Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
4/22/2026209 N LARAMIE AVEAustin28Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
4/22/20265841 S MOODY AVEGarfield Ridge13Completed1 dayAlderman's OfficeCity 311
4/22/20265717 S MOODY AVEGarfield Ridge13Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
4/22/20264736 N LINCOLN AVELincoln Square47Completed1 dayMobile DeviceCity 311
4/22/20263669 N ELSTON AVEIrving Park33Completed1 dayMobile DeviceCity 311
4/22/20261446 W 94TH STWashington Heights21Completed2 daysPhone CallCity 311
4/22/20266512 S KARLOV AVEWest Lawn13Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
4/22/2026872 N FRANCISCO AVEWest Town36Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
4/22/20262517 S ST LOUIS AVESouth Lawndale22Completed2 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
4/22/20262534 S ST LOUIS AVESouth Lawndale22Completed2 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
4/22/20262514 S ST LOUIS AVESouth Lawndale22Completed2 daysPhone CallCity 311
4/22/20263562 W LYNDALE STLogan Square35Completed2 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
4/22/202611113 S KEDZIE AVEMount Greenwood19Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
4/22/20264431 N KEYSTONE AVEAlbany Park39Completed2 daysPhone CallCity 311
4/22/20266429 N FAIRFIELD AVEWest Ridge50Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
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