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

59,088 reports match your filters.

DateAddressNeighborhoodWardStatusResponse timeReported viaSource
10/22/20263004 N MENARD AVEBelmont Cragin30Completed11 daysInternetCity 311
10/22/20262731 N HAMPDEN CTLincoln Park43Open—Mobile DeviceCity 311
10/22/20267047 S CALIFORNIA AVEChicago Lawn17Completed13 daysPhone CallCity 311
10/22/20261437 W MELROSE STLake View32Completed13 daysInternetCity 311
10/22/20263900 N SHERIDAN RDLake View46Completed12 daysInternetCity 311
10/22/20263653 N BOSWORTH AVELake View47Completed13 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
10/22/20261635 W 17TH STLower West Side25Completed11 daysInternetCity 311
10/22/20263312 N NEWCASTLE AVEDunning38Completed13 daysInternetCity 311
10/22/20268548 S MACKINAW AVESouth Chicago10Completed4 daysPhone CallCity 311
10/22/2026555 W 87TH STAuburn Gresham21Completed12 daysInternetCity 311
10/22/20266620 W IMLAY STNorwood Park41Completed7 daysInternetCity 311
10/22/20261810 S RACINE AVELower West Side25Completed11 daysInternetCity 311
10/22/20263724 N BELL AVENorth Center47Completed6 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
10/22/20264019 N MANGO AVEPortage Park38Completed12 daysInternetCity 311
10/22/20261905 N KOSTNER AVEHermosa26Completed11 daysInternetCity 311
10/22/20261715 N KEATING AVEAustin37Open—InternetCity 311
10/22/20265931 S NAGLE AVEClearing13Completed11 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
10/22/20262814 W BIRCHWOOD AVEWest Ridge50Completed5 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
10/22/20261308 S INDEPENDENCE BLVDNorth Lawndale24Completed7 daysPhone CallCity 311
10/22/2026111 E WACKER DRLoop42Completed13 daysInternetCity 311
10/22/20264715 W WEST WEST END AVEAustin28Completed12 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
10/22/20268011 S LASALLE STChatham17Completed11 daysInternetCity 311
10/22/20268514 S SUMMIT AVEAuburn Gresham17Completed11 daysInternetCity 311
10/22/20262111 N CALIFORNIA AVELogan Square1Completed12 daysPhone CallCity 311
10/22/20265238 N CAMPBELL AVELincoln Square40Completed11 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
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