RatCity — Chicago Rat and Rodent Sightings Map

RatCity

4013 locations in the last 30 days (4191 reports) · Last sighting 16 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

60,312 reports match your filters.

DateAddressNeighborhoodWardStatusResponse timeReported viaSource
9/8/20252858 W 25TH PLSouth Lawndale24Completed9 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/8/20256540 N CLARK STRogers Park40Completed11 daysInternetCity 311
9/8/20251917 S ST LOUIS AVENorth Lawndale24Completed9 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/8/20256335 W MONTROSE AVEPortage Park38Completed8 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/8/20255116 W BLOOMINGDALE AVEAustin37Completed9 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/8/20254828 S DR MARTIN LUTHER KING JR DRGrand Boulevard3Completed10 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/8/20253504 N OCTAVIA AVEDunning38Completed9 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
9/8/20253004 N MENARD AVEBelmont Cragin30Completed11 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
9/8/20253000 N MENARD AVEBelmont Cragin30Completed11 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
9/8/20254928 N LOWELL AVEAlbany Park39Completed10 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
9/8/20255345 N VIRGINIA AVELincoln Square39Completed10 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
9/8/20252138 W 83RD STAuburn Gresham18Completed8 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/8/20252439 W EASTWOOD AVELincoln Square47Completed10 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/8/20255525 S KOMENSKY AVEWest Elsdon13Completed11 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
9/8/20252107 N CALIFORNIA AVELogan Square1Completed10 daysInternetCity 311
9/8/20252237 N LEAMINGTON AVEBelmont Cragin26Completed11 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/8/20253119 S RIDGEWAY AVESouth Lawndale22Completed10 daysInternetCity 311
9/8/20253534 N RETA AVELake View44Completed9 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/8/20253534 N RETA AVELake View44Completed9 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/8/20257241 N ORIOLE AVEEdison Park41Completed7 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
9/8/20254747 S PULASKI RDArcher Heights14Completed7 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
9/8/20255428 W DAKIN STPortage Park30Completed11 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
9/8/20252116 W RACE AVEWest Town36Completed10 daysInternetCity 311
9/8/20255612 S KARLOV AVEWest Elsdon13Completed11 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/8/20252200 N TALMAN AVELogan Square1Completed10 daysInternetCity 311
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