RatCity — Chicago Rat and Rodent Sightings Map

RatCity

4534 locations in the last 30 days (4688 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

53,915 reports match your filters.

DateAddressNeighborhoodWardStatusResponse timeReported viaSource
8/13/2025500 S CLAREMONT AVENear West Side28Completed6 daysInternetCity 311
8/13/20251901 W DIVERSEY PKWYLincoln Park32Completed12 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
8/13/20256417 S RACINE AVEEnglewood16Completed8 daysInternetCity 311
8/13/20252622 N MONITOR AVEBelmont Cragin30Completed9 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
8/13/20252624 N MONITOR AVEBelmont Cragin30Completed9 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
8/13/20254622 N MONTICELLO AVEAlbany Park33Completed12 daysPhone CallCity 311
8/13/2025814 W BUCKINGHAM PLLake View44Completed5 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
8/13/20259546 S CALUMET AVERoseland9Completed16 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
8/13/20254921 N CENTRAL PARK AVEAlbany Park33Completed13 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
8/13/20251452 W FARGO AVERogers Park49Completed13 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
8/13/20255811 N WASHTENAW AVEWest Ridge40Completed14 daysInternetCity 311
8/13/20256129 N ARTESIAN AVEWest Ridge40Completed13 daysInternetCity 311
8/13/20255612 N MAJOR AVEJefferson Park45Completed9 daysInternetCity 311
8/13/20252510 W IOWA STWest Town36Completed8 daysInternetCity 311
8/13/20252443 N LOTUS AVEBelmont Cragin31Completed14 daysInternetCity 311
8/13/20253535 N LINDER AVEPortage Park30Completed9 daysInternetCity 311
8/13/20251225 W GEORGE STLake View32Completed11 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
8/13/20256919 S CAMPBELL AVEChicago Lawn16Completed8 daysInternetCity 311
8/13/20255450 W EDDY STPortage Park30Completed8 daysInternetCity 311
8/13/20255936 N HERMITAGE AVEEdgewater40Completed14 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
8/13/20255117 S KILPATRICK AVEGarfield Ridge23Completed11 daysInternetCity 311
8/13/20252154 N MOBILE AVEBelmont Cragin36Completed12 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
8/13/20253426 N LINCOLN AVELake View47Completed11 daysInternetCity 311
8/13/202510058 S ST LAWRENCE AVERoseland9Completed16 daysPhone CallCity 311
8/13/20253703 W 114TH PLMount Greenwood19Completed14 daysPhone CallCity 311
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