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
10/22/20266001 W MELROSE STDunning30Completed11 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
10/22/20262847 S TRUMBULL AVESouth Lawndale22Completed13 daysPhone CallCity 311
10/22/20264039 N PONTIAC AVEDunning38Completed4 daysPhone CallCity 311
10/22/20267013 W CORNELIA AVEDunning38Completed12 daysPhone CallCity 311
10/22/20267147 S VERNON AVEGreater Grand Crossing6Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
10/22/20264904 S KEDVALE AVEArcher Heights14Open—Phone CallCity 311
10/22/2026816 W 51ST PLNew City20Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
10/22/20262108 N HALSTED STLincoln Park43Completed12 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
10/22/20265800 N PAULINA STEdgewater40Completed11 daysInternetCity 311
10/22/20266506 S WINCHESTER AVEWest Englewood16Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
10/22/20262626 W TOUHY AVEWest Ridge50Completed5 daysPhone CallCity 311
10/22/20262231 W BERWYN AVELincoln Square40Completed0 daysPhone CallCity 311
10/22/20265017 N TROY STAlbany Park33Completed12 daysInternetCity 311
10/22/20264730 S LECLAIRE AVEGarfield Ridge22Completed13 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
10/22/20265920 W BERENICE AVEPortage Park38Completed13 daysPhone CallCity 311
10/22/20261510 W 82ND STAuburn Gresham17Completed11 daysPhone CallCity 311
10/22/20261751 W ALBION AVERogers Park40Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
10/22/20261926 W NEWPORT AVENorth Center32Completed13 daysInternetCity 311
10/22/20264414 W WEST END AVEWest Garfield Park28Completed12 daysInternetCity 311
10/22/20262132 N LEAMINGTON AVEBelmont Cragin26Completed6 daysPhone CallCity 311
10/22/20262127 N LEAMINGTON AVEBelmont Cragin26Completed11 daysPhone CallCity 311
10/22/20264201 W KAMERLING AVEHumboldt Park37Open—InternetCity 311
10/22/20263739 S ALBANY AVEBrighton Park12Open—Phone CallCity 311
10/22/2026346 W 31ST STArmour Square11Completed13 daysInternetCity 311
10/22/20266316 S HOYNE AVEWest Englewood16Completed12 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
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