RatCity — Chicago Rat and Rodent Sightings Map

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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

59,238 reports match your filters.

DateAddressNeighborhoodWardStatusResponse timeReported viaSource
10/11/20263342 N NORDICA AVEDunning38Completed10 daysInternetCity 311
10/11/20263340 N NORDICA AVEDunning38Completed10 daysInternetCity 311
10/11/20262230 N SEELEY AVELogan Square32Completed16 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
10/11/20265741 S MASSASOIT AVEGarfield Ridge13Completed16 daysPhone CallCity 311
10/11/20261455 W FRY STWest Town27Completed12 daysPhone CallCity 311
10/11/20264621 N KARLOV AVEAlbany Park39Completed15 daysPhone CallCity 311
10/11/20262901 N NARRAGANSETT AVEBelmont Cragin30Completed15 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
10/11/20263610 W LEXINGTON STEast Garfield Park24Completed16 daysPhone CallCity 311
10/11/20263619 N JANSSEN AVELake View44Completed15 daysPhone CallCity 311
10/11/2026333 W HUBBARD STNear North Side42Completed2 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
10/11/2026150 W BURTON PLNear North Side2Completed9 daysInternetCity 311
10/11/20267044 N CLARK STRogers Park49Completed12 daysInternetCity 311
10/11/20262303 W WASHINGTON BLVDNear West Side27Completed12 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
10/11/20261931 W WARNER AVENorth Center47Completed16 daysInternetCity 311
10/11/20266529 S KNOX AVEClearing13Completed16 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
10/10/20264832 S DAMEN AVENew City15Completed12 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
10/10/20263900 W 57TH STWest Elsdon23Completed15 daysPhone CallCity 311
10/10/20266628 S RICHMOND STChicago Lawn15Completed13 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
10/10/20262153 N KEYSTONE AVEHermosa35Completed17 daysPhone CallCity 311
10/10/20261454 N BELL AVEWest Town1Completed16 daysInternetCity 311
10/10/20262618 S AVERS AVESouth Lawndale22Completed12 daysInternetCity 311
10/10/2026841 W IRVING PARK RDLake View46Completed9 daysInternetCity 311
10/10/20263702 N MOZART STIrving Park35Completed16 daysInternetCity 311
10/10/20265619 N SPAULDING AVENorth Park39Completed12 daysInternetCity 311
10/10/20261128 E HYDE PARK BLVDKenwood4Completed3 daysPhone CallCity 311
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