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

58,615 reports match your filters.

DateAddressNeighborhoodWardStatusResponse timeReported viaSource
10/28/20263014 S KILDARE AVESouth Lawndale22Open—Phone CallCity 311
10/28/20265007 N KILDARE AVEAlbany Park39Open—Phone CallCity 311
10/28/20267722 W ADDISON STDunning38Open—InternetCity 311
10/28/20268242 S ALBANY AVEAshburn18Open—Mobile DeviceCity 311
10/28/20264707 W CONGRESS PKWYAustin24Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
10/28/20263357 W 83RD PLAshburn18Open—InternetCity 311
10/28/20266149 N BROADWAYEdgewater48Open—InternetCity 311
10/28/20264535 N CLAREMONT AVELincoln Square47Open—Phone CallCity 311
10/28/20263548 S UNION AVEBridgeport11Completed2 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
10/28/20263613 W 56TH PLWest Elsdon23Open—Mobile DeviceCity 311
10/28/20263551 S UNION AVEBridgeport11Completed2 daysPhone CallCity 311
10/28/20263549 S UNION AVEBridgeport11Completed2 daysPhone CallCity 311
10/28/20263850 W 65TH STWest Lawn23Open—Phone CallCity 311
10/28/20264032 W WELLINGTON AVEAvondale31Open—Alderman's OfficeCity 311
10/28/202611723 S HALE AVEMorgan Park19Open—Alderman's OfficeCity 311
10/28/20265311 S RICHMOND STGage Park14Open—Mobile DeviceCity 311
10/28/20265522 N NEW ENGLAND AVENorwood Park41Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
10/28/20263608 S UNION AVEBridgeport11Completed2 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
10/28/20261321 W MELROSE STLake View44Open—Mobile DeviceCity 311
10/28/20263719 N JANSSEN AVELake View44Open—Phone CallCity 311
10/28/20264033 N MOZART STIrving Park33Open—Mobile DeviceCity 311
10/28/2026550 N ST CLAIR STNear North Side42Open—InternetCity 311
10/28/20266234 N MAPLEWOOD AVEWest Ridge50Open—Phone CallCity 311
10/28/202611400 S HALE AVEMorgan Park19Open—InternetCity 311
10/28/2026303 E 113TH STRoseland9Open—InternetCity 311
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