RatCity — Chicago Rat and Rodent Sightings Map

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31 locations in the last day (32 reports) · Last sighting 19 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 — 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
9/29/20265238 N LATROBE AVEJefferson Park45Completed15 daysInternetCity 311
9/29/20265316 S MASON AVEGarfield Ridge23Completed14 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/29/20268344 S BRANDON AVESouth Chicago10Completed14 daysInternetCity 311
9/29/20266344 S THROOP STWest Englewood16Completed15 daysInternetCity 311
9/29/20262529 W AUGUSTA BLVDWest Town36Completed14 daysInternetCity 311
9/29/20261920 W BARRY AVENorth Center32Completed15 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/29/20265226 N LATROBE AVEJefferson Park45Completed15 daysInternetCity 311
9/29/20266755 S WOLCOTT AVEWest Englewood16Completed20 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/29/20262940 N MASON AVEBelmont Cragin30Completed17 daysInternetCity 311
9/29/20263717 N ELSTON AVEIrving Park33Completed16 daysInternetCity 311
9/29/20261644 N KEDZIE AVEHumboldt Park26Completed15 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/29/20262061 W BIRCHWOOD AVERogers Park49Completed14 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/29/20262043 W BIRCHWOOD AVERogers Park49Completed14 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/29/20261643 N KEDZIE AVEHumboldt Park26Completed15 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/29/20262041 W BIRCHWOOD AVERogers Park49Completed14 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/29/20267449 S CHAMPLAIN AVEGreater Grand Crossing6Completed9 daysInternetCity 311
9/29/20264826 N KEYSTONE AVEAlbany Park39Completed15 daysInternetCity 311
9/29/20265147 W CULLOM AVEPortage Park45Completed15 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/29/20267337 N DAMEN AVERogers Park49Completed9 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/29/20265232 N LATROBE AVEJefferson Park45Completed15 daysInternetCity 311
9/29/20262131 N SHEFFIELD AVELincoln Park43Completed14 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/29/20266401 N HARLEM AVENorwood Park41Completed15 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/29/20266401 N HARLEM AVEEdison Park41Completed9 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/29/20266201 N KILDARE AVEForest Glen39Completed10 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/29/20264849 N RIDGEWAY AVEAlbany Park33Completed14 daysPhone CallCity 311
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