RatCity — Chicago Rat and Rodent Sightings Map

RatCity

4384 locations in the last 30 days (4578 reports) · Last sighting 13 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

59,088 reports match your filters.

DateAddressNeighborhoodWardStatusResponse timeReported viaSource
6/12/20261735 W 21ST PLLower West Side25Completed3 daysPhone CallCity 311
6/12/20261512 W BIRCHWOOD AVERogers Park49Completed3 daysPhone CallCity 311
6/12/20265639 W WAVELAND AVEPortage Park38Completed3 daysPhone CallCity 311
6/12/20262450 S TROY STSouth Lawndale25Completed3 daysPhone CallCity 311
6/12/202610839 S AVENUE DEast Side10Completed4 daysPhone CallCity 311
6/12/20264439 N CAMPBELL AVELincoln Square47Completed5 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
6/12/20262825 N SACRAMENTO AVEAvondale35Completed3 daysPhone CallCity 311
6/12/20263243 S RIDGEWAY AVESouth Lawndale22Completed0 daysPhone CallCity 311
6/12/20263004 W GUNNISON STAlbany Park33Completed3 daysPhone CallCity 311
6/12/20263635 N SACRAMENTO AVEIrving Park35Completed3 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
6/12/20261101 N PULASKI RDHumboldt Park37Completed4 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
6/12/202610042 S MORGAN STWashington Heights21Completed4 daysInternetCity 311
6/12/20262832 W FARRAGUT AVELincoln Square39Completed3 daysInternetCity 311
6/12/20261151 W 18TH STLower West Side25Completed3 daysInternetCity 311
6/12/20262517 S ST LOUIS AVESouth Lawndale22Completed0 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
6/12/20262534 S ST LOUIS AVESouth Lawndale22Completed0 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
6/12/20265105 W WILSON AVEPortage Park45Completed5 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
6/12/20263719 N PONTIAC AVEDunning38Completed4 daysPhone CallCity 311
6/12/20266916 S ADA STWest Englewood17Completed4 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
6/12/20266916 S ADA STWest Englewood17Completed4 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
6/12/20264447 N MALDEN STUptown46Completed5 daysInternetCity 311
6/12/20268136 S ADA STAuburn Gresham17Completed4 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
6/12/20268414 S MARSHFIELD AVEAuburn Gresham18Completed4 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
6/12/20267918 S PERRY AVEChatham17Completed4 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
6/12/202610244 S WHIPPLE STMount Greenwood19Completed4 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
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