RatCity — Chicago Rat and Rodent Sightings Map

RatCity

4124 locations in the last 30 days (4308 reports) · Last sighting 22 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

59,447 reports match your filters.

DateAddressNeighborhoodWardStatusResponse timeReported viaSource
11/4/20268116 S INGLESIDE AVEChatham8Open—Alderman's OfficeCity 311
11/4/20262420 N SOUTHPORT AVELincoln Park32Open—Mobile DeviceCity 311
11/4/20262921 N SEELEY AVENorth Center32Open—Mobile DeviceCity 311
11/4/20264415 S MARSHFIELD AVENew City15Open—Alderman's OfficeCity 311
11/4/20265325 S WOODLAWN AVEHyde Park5Completed1 dayMobile DeviceCity 311
11/4/20266446 W 64TH PLClearing13Completed2 daysPhone CallCity 311
11/4/20264759 N MAPLEWOOD AVELincoln Square40Open—Mobile DeviceCity 311
11/4/20265406 S MARYLAND AVEHyde Park20Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
11/4/20262551 W 109TH PLMorgan Park19Open—Phone CallCity 311
11/4/20263054 N RACINE AVELake View32Open—Phone CallCity 311
11/4/20261126 N AVERS AVEHumboldt Park37Completed1 dayMobile DeviceCity 311
11/4/20262422 W IRVING PARK RDNorth Center47Open—Mobile DeviceCity 311
11/4/20262741 W CRYSTAL STWest Town26Open—Mobile DeviceCity 311
11/4/20263907 N CUMBERLAND AVEDunning38Open—InternetCity 311
11/4/20265305 W FLETCHER STBelmont Cragin30Open—Mobile DeviceCity 311
11/4/20262817 N MOZART STAvondale35Open—InternetCity 311
11/4/20261334 N PARKSIDE AVEAustin29Completed1 dayMobile DeviceCity 311
11/4/20267383 N WINCHESTER AVERogers Park49Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
11/4/20267363 N WINCHESTER AVERogers Park49Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
11/4/20265323 W MELROSE STPortage Park30Open—Alderman's OfficeCity 311
11/4/20263675 N ELSTON AVEIrving Park33Open—InternetCity 311
11/4/20262000 N FREMONT STLincoln Park43Open—Mobile DeviceCity 311
11/4/20261702 W SUPERIOR STWest Town1Open—Mobile DeviceCity 311
11/4/20265215 S LINDER AVEGarfield Ridge23Open—InternetCity 311
11/4/20265221 S LINDER AVEGarfield Ridge23Open—InternetCity 311
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