RatCity — Chicago Rat and Rodent Sightings Map

RatCity

4163 locations in the last 30 days (4345 reports) · Last sighting 20 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

59,989 reports match your filters.

DateAddressNeighborhoodWardStatusResponse timeReported viaSource
12/26/2025612 N OGDEN AVEWest Town1Completed4 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
12/26/2025131 W CERMAK RDArmour Square11Completed0 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
12/26/20252221 W AUGUSTA BLVDWest Town36Completed4 daysInternetCity 311
12/26/20252032 N MOHAWK STLincoln Park43Completed3 daysPhone CallCity 311
12/26/20256242 N KENMORE AVEEdgewater48Completed3 daysPhone CallCity 311
12/26/20252415 W HADDON AVEWest Town36Completed4 daysInternetCity 311
12/26/20252515 S MILLARD AVESouth Lawndale22Completed3 daysPhone CallCity 311
12/26/20259235 S BRANDON AVESouth Chicago10Completed3 daysInternetCity 311
12/26/2025232 W WILLOW STLincoln Park43Completed3 daysInternetCity 311
12/26/2025520 N DRAKE AVEHumboldt Park27Completed3 daysPhone CallCity 311
12/26/20251355 N LAWNDALE AVEHumboldt Park26Completed0 daysPhone CallCity 311
12/26/20254437 S WALLACE STNew City15Completed3 daysPhone CallCity 311
12/26/20252720 W RASCHER AVELincoln Square40Completed0 daysPhone CallCity 311
12/26/20255106 W FLETCHER STBelmont Cragin31Completed4 daysPhone CallCity 311
12/26/20252105 N TRIPP AVEHermosa35Completed3 daysPhone CallCity 311
12/26/20255106 W FLETCHER STBelmont Cragin31Completed4 daysPhone CallCity 311
12/26/20253239 N OSAGE AVEDunning38Completed3 daysPhone CallCity 311
12/26/20253454 W 85TH PLAshburn18Completed0 daysPhone CallCity 311
12/26/20256251 N MONTICELLO AVENorth Park50Completed3 daysInternetCity 311
12/26/20252830 S WENTWORTH AVEArmour Square11Completed0 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
12/26/20253742 N LOWELL AVEIrving Park30Completed3 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
12/26/20258259 S ST LAWRENCE AVEChatham6Completed3 daysInternetCity 311
12/26/20257100 W DEVON AVENorwood Park41Completed4 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
12/26/20254411 S CALUMET AVEGrand Boulevard3Completed0 daysPhone CallCity 311
12/26/2025519 E 44TH STGrand Boulevard3Completed0 daysPhone CallCity 311
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