RatCity — Chicago Rat and Rodent Sightings Map

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95 locations in the last day (98 reports) · Last sighting 13 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

59,238 reports match your filters.

DateAddressNeighborhoodWardStatusResponse timeReported viaSource
10/8/20261639 W 21ST STLower West Side25Completed13 daysPhone CallCity 311
10/8/20261517 N CLEVELAND AVENear North Side2Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
10/8/20261519 N CLEVELAND AVENear North Side2Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
10/8/20261113 N WOOD STWest Town1Completed18 daysInternetCity 311
10/8/20261704 W JUNEWAY TERRogers Park49Completed13 daysPhone CallCity 311
10/8/20266500 S KOMENSKY AVEWest Lawn13Completed12 daysInternetCity 311
10/8/20261421 W CUYLER AVELake View47Completed15 daysInternetCity 311
10/8/20264930 W EDDY STPortage Park31Completed15 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
10/8/20261147 W 18TH STLower West Side25Completed13 daysPhone CallCity 311
10/8/20262221 W SUPERIOR STWest Town36Completed19 daysInternetCity 311
10/8/20264302 W MADISON STWest Garfield Park28Completed12 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
10/8/20264950 W FLETCHER STBelmont Cragin31Completed15 daysPhone CallCity 311
10/8/20265726 N ODELL AVENorwood Park41Completed13 daysPhone CallCity 311
10/8/20261754 E 55TH STHyde Park5Completed13 daysInternetCity 311
10/8/20262647 W IOWA STWest Town36Completed12 daysPhone CallCity 311
10/8/20263450 N ASHLAND AVELake View47Completed15 daysInternetCity 311
10/8/20262153 W BERTEAU AVENorth Center47Completed15 daysInternetCity 311
10/8/20263348 N RUTHERFORD AVEDunning38Completed20 daysPhone CallCity 311
10/8/20263312 N KEYSTONE AVEIrving Park30Completed15 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
10/8/20263317 N KEYSTONE AVEIrving Park30Completed13 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
10/8/20268309 S LUELLA AVESouth Chicago7Completed7 daysPhone CallCity 311
10/8/20266214 N TALMAN AVEWest Ridge50Completed14 daysPhone CallCity 311
10/8/20265600 S MEADE AVEGarfield Ridge13Completed12 daysInternetCity 311
10/8/20265600 S MOODY AVEGarfield Ridge13Completed12 daysInternetCity 311
10/8/20264506 N WOLCOTT AVELincoln Square47Completed15 daysPhone CallCity 311
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