RatCity — Chicago Rat and Rodent Sightings Map

RatCity

4380 locations in the last 30 days (4541 reports) · Last sighting yesterday

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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.

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

53,243 reports match your filters.

DateAddressNeighborhoodWardStatusResponse timeReported viaSource
4/22/20262412 W LYNDALE STLogan Square1Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
2/11/20267132 S TALMAN AVEChicago Lawn17Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
6/7/20268009 S FAIRFIELD AVEAshburn18Completed1 dayMobile DeviceCity 311
1/12/20262638 W RICE STWest Town36Completed1 dayMobile DeviceCity 311
11/6/20253019 N BROADWAYLake View44Completed1 dayMobile DeviceCity 311
3/4/20262975 N LAWNDALE AVEAvondale35Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
12/9/20257337 S SOUTH SHORE DRSouth Shore7Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
2/10/20265242W W SCHOOL STPortage Park31Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
5/5/20264612 N BEACON STUptown46Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
12/7/20256917 N WAYNE AVERogers Park49Completed1 dayMobile DeviceCity 311
5/11/20262801 E 96TH STSouth Deering10Completed1 dayMobile DeviceCity 311
4/27/20268153 S KINGSTON AVESouth Chicago7Completed1 dayAlderman's OfficeCity 311
2/24/20263024 N LONG AVEBelmont Cragin31Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
2/18/20266100 S MARSHFIELD AVEWest Englewood15Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
4/2/20261422 W BARRY AVELake View32Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
11/19/20255378 N LYNCH AVEJefferson Park45Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
2/11/20264707 N SAWYER AVEAlbany Park33Completed1 dayAlderman's OfficeCity 311
2/18/20266400 S MARSHFIELD AVEWest Englewood15Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
3/17/20264513 W PARKER AVEHermosa31Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
2/15/20266110 N SEELEY AVEWest Ridge40Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
11/13/20251226 N GREENVIEW AVEWest Town1Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
11/20/20253112 W LYNDALE STLogan Square35Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
1/15/20265907 N MAGNOLIA AVEEdgewater48Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
2/23/20268411 S CREGIER AVEAvalon Park8Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
3/24/20264835 N OAKLEY AVELincoln Square47Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
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