RatCity — Chicago Rat and Rodent Sightings Map

RatCity

4298 locations in the last 30 days (4486 reports) · Last sighting 12 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 — 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.

Browse every sighting

59,882 reports match your filters.

DateAddressNeighborhoodWardStatusResponse timeReported viaSource
3/9/20263858 N NORA AVEDunning38Completed2 daysPhone CallCity 311
3/9/20263235 W OLIVE AVENorth Park39Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
3/9/20263533 W ADAMS STEast Garfield Park28Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
3/9/20263455 N NORMANDY AVEDunning38Completed2 daysPhone CallCity 311
3/9/20266943 S DAMEN AVEWest Englewood17Completed2 daysPhone CallCity 311
3/9/20265307 W EDDY STPortage Park30Completed4 daysInternetCity 311
3/9/20265823 N CHRISTIANA AVENorth Park39Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
3/9/20265927 S LOOMIS STWest Englewood16Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
3/9/20264632 N KELSO AVEAlbany Park39Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
3/9/20265011 N FRANCISCO AVELincoln Square40Completed3 daysInternetCity 311
3/9/20261158 W 20TH PLLower West Side25Completed4 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
3/9/20261113 W 19TH PLLower West Side25Completed4 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
3/9/20265009 N FRANCISCO AVELincoln Square40Completed3 daysInternetCity 311
3/9/20262632 W EASTWOOD AVELincoln Square47Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
3/9/202610704 S RIDGEWAY AVEMount Greenwood19Completed2 daysPhone CallCity 311
3/9/2026820 S INDEPENDENCE BLVDWest Garfield Park24Completed3 daysPhone CallCity 311
3/9/20263082 N HAUSSEN CTAvondale31Completed2 daysPhone CallCity 311
3/9/20263504 S CALIFORNIA AVEBrighton Park12Completed2 daysPhone CallCity 311
3/9/20263622 S CALIFORNIA AVEBrighton Park12Completed2 daysPhone CallCity 311
3/9/20265113 W CARMEN AVEJefferson Park45Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
3/9/20264739 W ADDISON STPortage Park30Completed4 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
3/9/20264944 S ELLIS AVEKenwood4Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
3/9/20262751 N SEMINARY AVELincoln Park43Completed0 daysPhone CallCity 311
3/9/20261415 W BARRY AVELake View32Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
3/9/20263515 W BEACH AVEHumboldt Park26Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
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