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
9/25/2026447 W 27TH STBridgeport11Completed12 daysInternetCity 311
9/25/2026473 W 27TH STBridgeport11Completed12 daysInternetCity 311
9/25/20266444 W FOSTER AVENorwood Park41Completed12 daysInternetCity 311
9/25/20266446 N NOKOMIS AVEForest Glen45Completed11 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/25/20265400 S MERRIMAC AVEGarfield Ridge23Completed4 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/25/20261515 W HOLLYWOOD AVEEdgewater48Completed14 daysInternetCity 311
9/25/20263525 N NEVA AVEDunning38Completed12 daysInternetCity 311
9/25/20262634 S KILDARE AVESouth Lawndale22Completed12 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/25/20261940 N KEDZIE AVELogan Square26Completed10 daysInternetCity 311
9/25/20264521 W MONTANA STHermosa31Completed14 daysInternetCity 311
9/25/20268254 S TROY STAshburn18Completed6 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/25/20261209 W ARTHUR AVERogers Park49Completed10 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/25/20266930 S SOUTH SHORE DRSouth Shore5Completed12 daysInternetCity 311
9/25/20261316 N BELL AVEWest Town1Completed13 daysInternetCity 311
9/24/20262636 W CULLERTON STSouth Lawndale25Completed11 daysInternetCity 311
9/24/20263001 N LOWELL AVEHermosa31Completed14 daysInternetCity 311
9/24/20267100 S ASHLAND AVEWest Englewood17Completed11 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/24/20261114 N WOLCOTT AVEWest Town1Completed13 daysInternetCity 311
9/24/20263630 N PIONEER AVEDunning38Completed12 daysInternetCity 311
9/24/20269741 S HALSTED STWashington Heights21Completed4 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/24/20265232 N WESTERN AVELincoln Square40Completed13 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/24/20265319 W BARRY AVEBelmont Cragin31Completed12 daysInternetCity 311
9/24/20265323 W BARRY AVEBelmont Cragin31Completed12 daysInternetCity 311
9/24/20261409 W WINNEMAC AVEUptown47Completed13 daysInternetCity 311
9/24/20264800 W WASHINGTON BLVDAustin28Completed4 daysInternetCity 311
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