RatCity — Chicago Rat and Rodent Sightings Map

RatCity

3998 locations in the last 30 days (4176 reports) · Last sighting 17 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
9/5/20252239 W ERIE STWest Town36Completed12 daysInternetCity 311
9/5/20252347 W AUGUSTA BLVDWest Town36Completed12 daysInternetCity 311
9/5/20254619 W PATTERSON AVEPortage Park30Completed14 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/5/20258200 S ADA STAuburn Gresham17Completed13 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/5/20259424 S THROOP STWashington Heights21Completed13 daysInternetCity 311
9/5/20252025 W PENSACOLA AVENorth Center47Completed11 daysInternetCity 311
9/5/20254321 W BELDEN AVEHermosa35Completed11 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/5/20254281 W 76TH STWest Lawn18Completed11 daysInternetCity 311
9/5/20259840 S ESCANABA AVESouth Deering10Completed14 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/5/2025248 W 31ST STArmour Square11Completed11 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
9/5/20253021 S PRINCETON AVEArmour Square11Completed11 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
9/5/20258254 S MARSHFIELD AVEAuburn Gresham17Completed13 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/5/20252460 W FOSTER AVELincoln Square40Completed12 daysInternetCity 311
9/5/20256913 W FARRAGUT AVENorwood Park41Completed10 daysInternetCity 311
9/5/20252500 S MILLARD AVESouth Lawndale22Completed10 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
9/5/20253242 S CANAL STBridgeport11Completed11 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
9/5/20253000 S KILDARE AVESouth Lawndale22Completed10 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/5/20256800 W FOSTER AVENorwood Park41Completed10 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/5/20258047 S STEWART AVEChatham6Completed13 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/5/202510636 S ALBANY AVEMount Greenwood19Completed10 daysInternetCity 311
9/5/20258041 S STEWART AVEChatham6Completed13 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/5/20253808 W 80TH PLAshburn18Completed11 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
9/5/2025623 W SCHUBERT AVELincoln Park43Completed12 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/5/20251912 N SPRINGFIELD AVEHermosa26Completed12 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/5/20256925 S MAPLEWOOD AVEChicago Lawn16Completed11 daysPhone CallCity 311
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