RatCity — Chicago Rat and Rodent Sightings Map

RatCity

4437 locations in the last 30 days (4600 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.

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
7/28/20265230 S CORNELL AVEHyde Park5Completed9 daysInternetCity 311
8/26/20261633 E 67TH STSouth Shore5Completed13 daysPhone CallCity 311
5/7/20265407 S HYDE PARK BLVDHyde Park5Completed4 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
7/17/20267427 S DREXEL AVEGreater Grand Crossing6Completed7 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
10/5/2025360 E 91ST STChatham6Completed3 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
4/22/20268310 S INDIANA AVEChatham6Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
4/23/20267723 S STATE STGreater Grand Crossing6Completed0 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
8/18/20258040 S EMERALD AVEAuburn Gresham6Completed8 daysInternetCity 311
8/15/20267710 S MICHIGAN AVEGreater Grand Crossing6Completed9 daysInternetCity 311
4/26/2026500 E 71ST STGreater Grand Crossing6Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
7/30/20256757 S PARNELL AVEEnglewood6Completed7 daysInternetCity 311
5/17/2026228 E 69TH PLGreater Grand Crossing6Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
7/30/2025436 W 72ND STEnglewood6Completed7 daysInternetCity 311
9/25/20268749 S WABASH AVEChatham6Open—Phone CallCity 311
3/9/2026354 W 76TH STGreater Grand Crossing6Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
3/9/20266847 S PERRY AVEGreater Grand Crossing6Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
3/8/202621 E 73RD STGreater Grand Crossing6Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
3/9/20267141 S RHODES AVEGreater Grand Crossing6Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
10/1/20256714 S MICHIGAN AVEGreater Grand Crossing6Completed5 daysPhone CallCity 311
10/2/20256916 S UNION AVEEnglewood6Completed4 daysInternetCity 311
8/25/20267433 S CALUMET AVEGreater Grand Crossing6Completed7 daysInternetCity 311
9/11/20267521 S EVANS AVEGreater Grand Crossing6Completed12 daysInternetCity 311
9/24/20257325 S EMERALD AVEEnglewood6Completed12 daysPhone CallCity 311
7/30/20257001 S NORMAL AVEEnglewood6Completed7 daysInternetCity 311
3/6/2026735 E 84TH PLChatham6Completed4 daysInternetCity 311
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