RatCity — Chicago Rat and Rodent Sightings Map

RatCity

4454 locations in the last 30 days (4617 reports) · Last sighting 11 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

53,341 reports match your filters.

DateAddressNeighborhoodWardStatusResponse timeReported viaSource
8/17/20265436 S KIMBARK AVEHyde Park5Completed2 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/16/20265423 S INGLESIDE AVEHyde Park5Open—InternetCity 311
11/3/20255510 S CORNELL AVEHyde Park5Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
9/19/20266833 S CRANDON AVESouth Shore5Open—InternetCity 311
9/24/20265334 S GREENWOOD AVEHyde Park5Open—Mobile DeviceCity 311
8/17/20265301 S WOODLAWN AVEHyde Park5Completed2 daysInternetCity 311
9/9/20264926 S CORNELL AVEKenwood5Completed13 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
8/2/20257330 S UNIVERSITY AVEGreater Grand Crossing5Completed11 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/10/20264926 S CORNELL AVEKenwood5Completed12 daysInternetCity 311
12/10/20255311 S WOODLAWN AVEHyde Park5Completed0 daysInternetCity 311
8/14/20265729 S DORCHESTER AVEHyde Park5Completed5 daysPhone CallCity 311
1/8/20262241 E 71ST STSouth Shore5Canceled1 dayPhone CallCity 311
8/2/20251554 E 55TH STHyde Park5Completed11 daysPhone CallCity 311
11/5/20257117 S BENNETT AVESouth Shore5Completed2 daysPhone CallCity 311
1/7/20261601 E 55TH STHyde Park5Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
1/7/20265345 S KIMBARK AVEHyde Park5Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
8/26/20261538 E 67TH PLSouth Shore5Completed13 daysPhone CallCity 311
8/2/20255130 S ELLIS AVEHyde Park5Completed11 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
11/5/20257245 S JEFFERY BLVDSouth Shore5Completed2 daysPhone CallCity 311
7/13/20265474 S GREENWOOD AVEHyde Park5Completed15 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
4/20/20265110 S WOODLAWN AVEHyde Park5Completed2 daysPhone CallCity 311
7/22/20265230 S CORNELL AVEHyde Park5Completed2 daysPhone CallCity 311
7/31/20255237 S INGLESIDE AVEHyde Park5Completed4 daysPhone CallCity 311
12/31/20255127 S GREENWOOD AVEHyde Park5Completed2 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
7/6/20265414 S GREENWOOD AVEHyde Park5Completed2 daysPhone CallCity 311
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