RatCity — Chicago Rat and Rodent Sightings Map

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4255 locations in the last 30 days (4444 reports) · Last sighting yesterday

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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

58,615 reports match your filters.

DateAddressNeighborhoodWardStatusResponse timeReported viaSource
6/19/20264836 N ALBANY AVEAlbany Park33Completed3 daysInternetCity 311
6/19/20264421 N WINCHESTER AVELincoln Square47Completed4 daysInternetCity 311
6/19/20265218 W WASHINGTON BLVDAustin37Completed4 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
6/19/20266301 N LA CROSSE AVEForest Glen39Completed3 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
6/19/20261443 W WRIGHTWOOD AVELincoln Park32Completed5 daysInternetCity 311
6/19/20265713 W PATTERSON AVEPortage Park38Completed5 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
6/19/20263026 W CHASE AVEWest Ridge50Completed4 daysPhone CallCity 311
6/19/20262717 W CARMEN AVELincoln Square40Completed5 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
6/19/20265511 N MULLIGAN AVEJefferson Park45Completed4 daysInternetCity 311
6/19/20265510 N MULLIGAN AVEJefferson Park41Completed4 daysInternetCity 311
6/19/20264448 S KARLOV AVEArcher Heights14Completed3 daysPhone CallCity 311
6/19/2026910 N WINCHESTER AVEWest Town36Completed5 daysInternetCity 311
6/19/20264325 N TROY STIrving Park33Completed3 daysInternetCity 311
6/19/20265548 N WAYNE AVEEdgewater48Completed5 daysInternetCity 311
6/19/20263212 W WABANSIA AVEHumboldt Park26Completed3 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
6/19/20264756 S INDIANA AVEGrand Boulevard3Completed4 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
6/19/20265335 S PRINCETON AVEFuller Park20Completed4 daysPhone CallCity 311
6/19/20267514 N DAMEN AVERogers Park49Completed4 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
6/19/20266649 W IMLAY STNorwood Park41Completed4 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
6/19/20265238 S LOTUS AVEGarfield Ridge23Completed6 daysInternetCity 311
6/19/20265222 S LOTUS AVEGarfield Ridge23Completed3 daysInternetCity 311
6/19/2026702 N NOBLE STWest Town27Completed5 daysInternetCity 311
6/19/20263506 N BOSWORTH AVELake View47Completed4 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
6/19/20264449 N BROADWAYUptown46Completed4 daysPhone CallCity 311
6/19/20266101 N NORTHWEST HWYNorwood Park41Completed4 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
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