RatCity — Chicago Rat and Rodent Sightings Map

RatCity

4616 locations in the last 30 days (4774 reports) · Last sighting 19 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.

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

53,761 reports match your filters.

DateAddressNeighborhoodWardStatusResponse timeReported viaSource
7/3/20261224 N CICERO AVEAustin37Completed11 daysInternetCity 311
9/15/20261224 S SPRINGFIELD AVENorth Lawndale24Completed14 daysInternetCity 311
5/11/20261224 S SPRINGFIELD AVENorth Lawndale24Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
3/2/20261224 S SPRINGFIELD AVENorth Lawndale24Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
8/31/20261224 W AUGUSTA BLVDWest Town27Completed11 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
8/24/20261224 W AUGUSTA BLVDWest Town27Completed8 daysPhone CallCity 311
6/8/20261224 W OAKDALE AVELake View32Completed2 daysInternetCity 311
10/28/20251224 W OAKDALE AVELake View32Completed2 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
10/30/20251224 W OHIO STWest Town1Completed5 daysInternetCity 311
8/17/20251224 W VAN BUREN STNear West Side34Completed3 daysInternetCity 311
5/5/20261224 W WILSON AVEUptown46Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
2/2/202612258 S PRINCETON AVEWest Pullman9Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
4/9/202612258 S PRINCETON AVEWest Pullman9Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
7/7/202612258 S PRINCETON AVEWest Pullman9Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
4/9/202612258 S PRINCETON AVEWest Pullman9Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
3/2/202612258 S PRINCETON AVEWest Pullman9Completed3 daysInternetCity 311
12/2/202512258 S PRINCETON AVEWest Pullman9Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
8/9/202612259 S WENTWORTH AVEWest Pullman9Completed9 daysInternetCity 311
4/25/20261225 E 95TH STPullman8Completed2 daysPhone CallCity 311
4/1/20261225 N CALIFORNIA AVEWest Town26Completed5 daysInternetCity 311
8/14/20251225 N PULASKI RDHumboldt Park37Completed12 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
10/13/20251225 W BARRY AVELake View32Completed8 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
8/13/20251225 W GEORGE STLake View32Completed11 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
8/22/20251225 W HENDERSON STLake View44Completed13 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/17/20251225 W PRATT AVERogers Park49Completed9 daysPhone CallCity 311
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