RatCity — Chicago Rat and Rodent Sightings Map

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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
10/6/20264707 W CONGRESS PKWYAustin24Completed10 daysPhone CallCity 311
10/6/20264700 W CONGRESS PKWYAustin24Completed10 daysPhone CallCity 311
10/6/20265020 N MELVINA AVEJefferson Park45Completed16 daysPhone CallCity 311
10/6/2026820 W WOLFRAM STLake View44Completed16 daysInternetCity 311
10/6/2026837 E 86TH STChatham8Completed9 daysPhone CallCity 311
10/6/20264730 W GLADYS AVEAustin28Completed14 daysPhone CallCity 311
10/6/2026515 W BELDEN AVELincoln Park43Completed14 daysInternetCity 311
10/6/2026520 W GRANT PLLincoln Park43Completed14 daysInternetCity 311
10/6/2026518 W GRANT PLLincoln Park43Completed14 daysInternetCity 311
10/6/20263012 W 54TH PLGage Park14Completed13 daysPhone CallCity 311
10/6/20265034 S LECLAIRE AVEGarfield Ridge23Completed14 daysInternetCity 311
10/6/20262345 W 81ST PLAshburn18Completed13 daysPhone CallCity 311
10/6/20263858 N OTTAWA AVEDunning38Completed16 daysInternetCity 311
10/6/20266420 N GREENVIEW AVERogers Park49Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
10/6/20265542 N MONITOR AVEJefferson Park45Completed20 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
10/6/20263545 S ARTESIAN AVEMcKinley Park12Completed10 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
10/6/20262559 W PERSHING RDBrighton Park12Completed10 daysPhone CallCity 311
10/6/20264859 S UNION AVENew City15Completed10 daysPhone CallCity 311
10/6/20262731 N MARMORA AVEBelmont Cragin30Completed15 daysInternetCity 311
10/6/20265205 S HARDING AVEWest Elsdon23Completed14 daysPhone CallCity 311
10/6/202611218 S PARNELL AVERoseland21Completed13 daysInternetCity 311
10/6/20264425 N WINCHESTER AVELincoln Square47Completed15 daysInternetCity 311
10/6/20263037 S CENTRAL PARK AVESouth Lawndale22Completed14 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
10/6/20267224 N OAKLEY AVEWest Ridge50Completed15 daysPhone CallCity 311
10/6/20267800 S CREGIER AVESouth Shore8Completed9 daysPhone CallCity 311
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