RatCity — Chicago Rat and Rodent Sightings Map

RatCity

4575 locations in the last 30 days (4730 reports) · Last sighting 23 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
2/12/20265850 N MULLIGAN AVENorwood Park45Completed1 dayAlderman's OfficeCity 311
2/24/20262514 W SUPERIOR STWest Town36Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
12/1/20251038 W OAKDALE AVELake View44Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
10/30/20255406 S SEELEY AVENew City16Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
4/27/20261361 W GRAND AVEWest Town1Completed1 dayMobile DeviceCity 311
2/11/20261622 N LINDER AVEAustin37Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
2/24/20266336 S CHAMPLAIN AVEWoodlawn20Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
1/7/202610030 S LOWE AVEWashington Heights21Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
6/15/20262217 W IOWA STWest Town36Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
1/12/20261728 W CERMAK RDLower West Side25Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
11/13/20252144 N CLEVELAND AVELincoln Park43Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
4/8/20264918 N NASHVILLE AVENorwood Park41Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
2/16/20267369 N WINCHESTER AVERogers Park49Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
7/23/20262837 N ROCKWELL STAvondale35Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
4/8/20268613 W FOSTER AVEO'Hare41Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
5/20/20262434 S SPRINGFIELD AVESouth Lawndale22Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
1/14/20265258 W WASHINGTON BLVDAustin37Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
5/18/20265616 S KARLOV AVEWest Elsdon13Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
3/18/20267433 S EUCLID PKWYSouth Shore7Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
11/11/20252601 W LUTHER STSouth Lawndale25Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
2/2/20263675 N ELSTON AVEIrving Park33Completed1 dayMobile DeviceCity 311
4/9/20262733 S SHIELDS AVEArmour Square11Completed1 dayMobile DeviceCity 311
11/12/20251033 W NORTH SHORE AVERogers Park49Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
4/14/20261931 N KOSTNER AVEHermosa26Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
12/23/20251143 N MOZART STWest Town26Completed1 dayMobile DeviceCity 311
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