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

59,354 reports match your filters.

DateAddressNeighborhoodWardStatusResponse timeReported viaSource
9/16/20266810 S TALMAN AVEChicago Lawn16Completed13 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/16/20265423 S INGLESIDE AVEHyde Park5Completed14 daysInternetCity 311
9/16/20266255 N GREENVIEW AVEEdgewater48Completed14 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/16/2026839 N LARAMIE AVEAustin37Completed13 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/16/20268208 S SANGAMON STAuburn Gresham17Completed12 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/16/20267500 S WOOD STAuburn Gresham17Completed12 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/16/2026605 E 87TH PLChatham8Completed16 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
9/16/20261353 N LATROBE AVEAustin37Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
9/16/20263948 W OHIO STHumboldt Park37Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
9/16/202610555 S RHODES AVERoseland9Completed13 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
9/16/20265931 W ERIE STAustin29Completed5 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/16/2026220 S HOYNE AVENear West Side27Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
9/16/2026260 W 24TH STArmour Square11Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
9/16/20264955 W WINONA STForest Glen45Completed7 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/16/20262307 W WASHINGTON BLVDNear West Side27Completed12 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/16/20266445 W RAVEN STNorwood Park45Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
9/16/20262930 N WISNER AVEAvondale35Completed12 daysInternetCity 311
9/16/20263437 N BELL AVENorth Center32Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
9/16/20262126 W MOFFAT STLogan Square32Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
9/16/2026364 W HURON STNear North Side42Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
9/16/2026910 W 35TH PLBridgeport11Completed13 daysInternetCity 311
9/16/20266520 N NORDICA AVENorwood Park41Completed14 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/16/20267501 W FOREST PRESERVE AVEDunning38Completed13 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/16/20264243 W SCHOOL STIrving Park30Completed14 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/16/20266532 N NORDICA AVENorwood Park41Completed14 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
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