RatCity — Chicago Rat and Rodent Sightings Map

RatCity

875 locations in the last week (911 reports) · Last sighting 22 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

59,447 reports match your filters.

DateAddressNeighborhoodWardStatusResponse timeReported viaSource
11/3/20269741 S HALSTED STWashington Heights21Open—Phone CallCity 311
11/3/20262248 N LOREL AVEBelmont Cragin36Open—Mobile DeviceCity 311
11/3/20265335 W WINNEMAC AVEJefferson Park45Open—Mobile DeviceCity 311
11/3/20265500 N MULLIGAN AVEJefferson Park41Open—InternetCity 311
11/2/202618 E IDA B WELLS DRLoop4Open—Mobile DeviceCity 311
11/2/20266407 S KEDZIE AVEChicago Lawn14Open—Phone CallCity 311
11/2/20263927 W GRENSHAW STNorth Lawndale24Open—InternetCity 311
11/2/20265344 W WINNEMAC AVEJefferson Park45Open—Mobile DeviceCity 311
11/2/20262420 S SAWYER AVESouth Lawndale25Open—Mobile DeviceCity 311
11/2/20267003 W HIGGINS AVENorwood Park41Open—Mobile DeviceCity 311
11/2/20263300 N KARLOV AVEIrving Park30Open—Phone CallCity 311
11/2/20263434 N PACIFIC AVEDunning38Open—Mobile DeviceCity 311
11/2/20262735 N LINCOLN AVELincoln Park43Open—InternetCity 311
11/2/20265137 W NEWPORT AVEPortage Park31Open—Mobile DeviceCity 311
11/2/20261031 N PAULINA STWest Town1Open—Mobile DeviceCity 311
11/2/20261464 S MICHIGAN AVENear South Side3Open—Mobile DeviceCity 311
11/2/20265317 N NEW ENGLAND AVENorwood Park41Open—Phone CallCity 311
11/2/20266633 N SHERIDAN RDRogers Park49Open—Phone CallCity 311
11/2/2026559 S CONGRESS PLAZA DRLoop42Completed4 daysInternetCity 311
11/2/20269027 S COLFAX AVECalumet Heights7Open—Mobile DeviceCity 311
11/2/20266900 S ROCKWELL STChicago Lawn17Completed4 daysPhone CallCity 311
11/2/20263012 W 24TH STSouth Lawndale25Open—Mobile DeviceCity 311
11/2/20261641 W ADDISON STLake View47Open—Mobile DeviceCity 311
11/2/2026881 N LASALLE DRNear North Side2Open—Phone CallCity 311
11/2/20265436 N WESTERN AVELincoln Square40Open—Mobile DeviceCity 311
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