RatCity — Chicago Rat and Rodent Sightings Map

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43011 locations in the last year (44141 reports) · Last sighting 23 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

59,447 reports match your filters.

DateAddressNeighborhoodWardStatusResponse timeReported viaSource
11/2/20264135 N MARMORA AVEPortage Park38Open—Phone CallCity 311
11/2/2026459 W MONTROSE HARBOR DRUptown46Open—Mobile DeviceCity 311
11/2/20267051 S WINCHESTER AVEWest Englewood17Completed4 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
11/2/20261743 N MAPLEWOOD AVEWest Town1Open—InternetCity 311
11/2/20261104 W PRATT AVERogers Park49Open—Phone CallCity 311
11/2/20269811 S THROOP STWashington Heights21Completed3 daysPhone CallCity 311
11/2/20268215 S COMMERCIAL AVESouth Chicago7Open—InternetCity 311
11/2/20261652 N PARKSIDE AVEAustin29Completed3 daysInternetCity 311
11/2/20266482 N NEWCASTLE AVENorwood Park41Open—Phone CallCity 311
11/2/20264238 W FULLERTON AVEHermosa31Open—InternetCity 311
11/2/20267650 N BOSWORTH AVERogers Park49Open—Phone CallCity 311
11/2/20267314 N HARLEM AVEEdison Park41Open—InternetCity 311
11/2/20261746 W BEACH AVEWest Town1Open—Mobile DeviceCity 311
11/2/20263652 N NEVA AVEDunning38Open—InternetCity 311
11/2/20264049 N LONG AVEPortage Park38Open—Phone CallCity 311
11/2/20266155 W 59TH STClearing13Completed4 daysInternetCity 311
11/2/20265849 S MASSASOIT AVEGarfield Ridge13Open—InternetCity 311
11/2/2026925 N DAMEN AVEWest Town36Open—InternetCity 311
11/2/20265542 S MOODY AVEGarfield Ridge13Completed4 daysInternetCity 311
11/2/20264211 W 25TH PLSouth Lawndale22Open—InternetCity 311
11/2/20262845 W 25TH STSouth Lawndale24Open—Alderman's OfficeCity 311
11/2/20264883 N LINCOLN AVELincoln Square40Open—InternetCity 311
11/2/20261838 W WARNER AVENorth Center47Open—Alderman's OfficeCity 311
11/2/20265155 S LONG AVEGarfield Ridge23Completed0 daysPhone CallCity 311
11/2/20264446 N WOLCOTT AVELincoln Square47Open—Phone CallCity 311
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