RatCity — Chicago Rat and Rodent Sightings Map

RatCity

4407 locations in the last 30 days (4562 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

53,341 reports match your filters.

DateAddressNeighborhoodWardStatusResponse timeReported viaSource
2/4/20263547 W 26TH STSouth Lawndale22Completed1 dayMobile DeviceCity 311
5/28/20266127 S MCVICKER AVEClearing13Completed1 dayMobile DeviceCity 311
11/19/20253030 N BROADWAYLake View44Completed1 dayMobile DeviceCity 311
12/28/20254632 S EVANS AVEGrand Boulevard4Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
2/2/20262245 N SEMINARY AVELincoln Park43Completed1 dayAlderman's OfficeCity 311
12/17/20253309 N NEW ENGLAND AVEDunning38Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
7/27/20266270 N CICERO AVEForest Glen39Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
3/24/20265310 N NATOMA AVENorwood Park41Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
12/3/20258510 S KARLOV AVEAshburn18Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
2/24/20264315 S PRAIRIE AVEGrand Boulevard3Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
5/31/2026209 W WASHINGTON STLoop34Completed1 dayMobile DeviceCity 311
3/2/20262413 S WESTERN AVELower West Side25Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
2/19/20262106 N LARAMIE AVEBelmont Cragin26Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
8/12/20265240 W NEWPORT AVEPortage Park31Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
11/18/20254925 N NEWCASTLE AVENorwood Park41Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
8/12/20261760 N CLYBOURN AVELincoln Park2Completed1 dayMobile DeviceCity 311
1/1/20263037 W GEORGE STAvondale35Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
1/20/20266247 N KILDARE AVEForest Glen39Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
8/10/20262626 W 23RD PLSouth Lawndale25Completed1 dayMobile DeviceCity 311
11/17/20251421 S WABASH AVENear South Side3Completed1 dayAlderman's OfficeCity 311
11/6/20252523 W 38TH STBrighton Park12Completed1 dayAlderman's OfficeCity 311
8/12/20261732 N CLYBOURN AVELincoln Park2Completed1 dayMobile DeviceCity 311
4/6/2026821 N LA SALLE STNear North Side2Completed1 dayMobile DeviceCity 311
1/8/20261051 N DRAKEHumboldt Park36Completed1 daySalesforce Mobile AppCity 311
2/24/20264225 N MONITOR AVEPortage Park38Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
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