RatCity — Chicago Rat and Rodent Sightings Map

RatCity

42973 locations in the last year (44102 reports) · Last sighting 2 days 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
10/9/2026844 W WAVELAND AVELake View46Completed10 daysPhone CallCity 311
10/9/20263834 W BERTEAU AVEIrving Park39Completed17 daysInternetCity 311
10/9/20265435 N ARTESIAN AVELincoln Square40Completed17 daysInternetCity 311
10/9/20265245 S WHIPPLE STGage Park14Completed10 daysInternetCity 311
10/9/20269337 S EVANS AVEChatham8Completed10 daysPhone CallCity 311
10/9/20266932 W FOSTER AVENorwood Park41Completed12 daysPhone CallCity 311
10/9/20265333 S NATCHEZ AVEGarfield Ridge23Completed17 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
10/9/20262707 W THOMAS STWest Town36Completed10 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
10/9/20263116 S UNION AVEBridgeport11Completed4 daysPhone CallCity 311
10/9/20265955 S THROOP STWest Englewood16Completed12 daysPhone CallCity 311
10/9/20261735 W 21ST PLLower West Side25Completed17 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
10/9/20267040 S CLAREMONT AVEChicago Lawn17Completed10 daysPhone CallCity 311
10/9/20265217 S KOLMAR AVEArcher Heights23Completed17 daysPhone CallCity 311
10/9/20267151 S VERNON AVEGreater Grand Crossing6Completed4 daysPhone CallCity 311
10/9/20264400 N ASHLAND AVEUptown47Completed14 daysInternetCity 311
10/9/202610500 S MAPLEWOOD AVEBeverly19Completed4 daysPhone CallCity 311
10/9/20267029 W HENDERSON STDunning38Completed4 daysPhone CallCity 311
10/9/20262645 N KEDZIE AVELogan Square35Completed17 daysPhone CallCity 311
10/9/20263625 N OCTAVIA AVEDunning38Completed4 daysPhone CallCity 311
10/9/2026444 W 43RD PLNew City11Completed17 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
10/9/20263313 N PLAINFIELD AVEDunning38Completed17 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
10/9/20263641 N NEWCASTLE AVEDunning38Completed4 daysPhone CallCity 311
10/9/20263807 N HAMLIN AVEIrving Park30Completed14 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
10/9/20265434 W CARMEN AVEJefferson Park45Completed13 daysPhone CallCity 311
10/9/20262306 S KILDARE AVENorth Lawndale22Completed14 daysPhone CallCity 311
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