RatCity — Chicago Rat and Rodent Sightings Map

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8 locations in the last day (9 reports) · Last sighting 21 hours ago

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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
9/24/2026950 W 37TH PLBridgeport11Completed13 daysInternetCity 311
9/24/20261527 W BARRY AVELake View32Completed11 daysInternetCity 311
9/24/202663 E 56TH STWashington Park20Completed13 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/24/20264943 N MENARD AVEJefferson Park45Completed12 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/24/20262239 W MELROSE STNorth Center32Completed11 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/24/20261655 N SAWYER AVEHumboldt Park26Completed11 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/24/20264415 N FRANCISCO AVEAlbany Park33Completed12 daysInternetCity 311
9/24/2026800 W DIVERSEY PKWYLincoln Park43Completed13 daysInternetCity 311
9/24/20267714 N MARSHFIELD AVERogers Park49Completed14 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/24/20262230 N GENEVA TERLincoln Park43Completed13 daysInternetCity 311
9/24/20261606 N WHIPPLE STHumboldt Park26Completed11 daysInternetCity 311
9/24/2026735 N SPRINGFIELD AVEHumboldt Park37Completed14 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/24/20267021 W 64TH STClearing13Completed12 daysInternetCity 311
9/24/20261052 N LEAMINGTON AVEAustin37Completed12 daysInternetCity 311
9/24/20264738 W GEORGE STBelmont Cragin31Completed12 daysInternetCity 311
9/24/20261942 N MONTICELLO AVELogan Square26Completed11 daysInternetCity 311
9/24/20263220 N PIONEER AVEDunning38Completed13 daysInternetCity 311
9/24/202611825 S STATE STWest Pullman9Completed14 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/24/20268204 S EVANS AVEChatham6Completed14 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/24/20264229 N LAWNDALE AVEIrving Park33Completed14 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/24/20264721 N CENTRAL PARK AVEAlbany Park33Completed12 daysInternetCity 311
9/24/20263853 N RIDGEWAY AVEIrving Park30Completed12 daysInternetCity 311
9/24/20265541 W DRUMMOND PLBelmont Cragin31Completed12 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
9/24/20266227 S CLAREMONT AVEChicago Lawn16Completed12 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/24/20263820 W 86TH STAshburn18Completed12 daysPhone CallCity 311
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