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
9/22/20263645 N WAYNE AVELake View44Completed10 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/22/20266921 S DR MARTIN LUTHER KING JR DRGreater Grand Crossing6Completed15 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/22/20261405 W HIGHLAND AVEEdgewater48Completed16 daysInternetCity 311
9/22/20265064 W NEWPORT AVEPortage Park31Completed10 daysInternetCity 311
9/22/20264858 N MILWAUKEE AVEJefferson Park45Completed13 daysInternetCity 311
9/22/20265052 N OAK PARK AVENorwood Park41Completed13 daysInternetCity 311
9/22/20264927 N WASHTENAW AVELincoln Square40Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
9/22/20264718 W BELLE PLAINE AVEPortage Park45Completed13 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/22/20265834 S TRIPP AVEWest Elsdon13Completed13 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/22/20261350 N DEARBORN STNear North Side2Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
9/22/20262344 W CHICAGO AVEWest Town36Completed14 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/22/20264843 W HIRSCH STAustin37Completed14 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/22/20262709 W POTOMAC AVEWest Town26Completed10 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/22/20262441 W HADDON AVEWest Town36Completed14 daysInternetCity 311
9/22/20263142 N DAMEN AVENorth Center32Completed13 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/22/2026939 W NEWPORT AVELake View44Completed10 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/22/20261918 S FAIRFIELD AVESouth Lawndale25Completed14 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/22/20268215 S GREEN STAuburn Gresham17Completed9 daysInternetCity 311
9/22/20264924 W WASHINGTON BLVDAustin28Completed6 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/22/20261936 N HALSTED STLincoln Park43Completed13 daysInternetCity 311
9/22/20261328 N MILWAUKEE AVEWest Town1Completed7 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/22/20265524 S HONORE STWest Englewood16Completed8 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/22/202610404 S ARTESIAN AVEBeverly19Completed14 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/22/20261147 W 101ST STWashington Heights21Completed6 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/22/20263853 W FILLMORE STNorth Lawndale24Completed17 daysPhone CallCity 311
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