RatCity — Chicago Rat and Rodent Sightings Map

RatCity

4700 locations in the last 30 days (4859 reports) · Last sighting 14 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
8/13/20267850 S GREENWOOD AVEGreater Grand Crossing8Completed11 daysInternetCity 311
8/29/20269307 S BURNSIDE AVEChatham8Completed5 daysInternetCity 311
10/25/20258840 S LUELLA AVECalumet Heights8Completed6 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
4/22/20269549 S WOODLAWN AVEPullman8Completed0 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/9/20259351 S LYON AVEChatham8Completed9 daysPhone CallCity 311
2/23/20268411 S CREGIER AVEAvalon Park8Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
4/17/2026834 E 90TH STChatham8Completed4 daysPhone CallCity 311
4/16/20268407 S DORCHESTER AVEAvalon Park8Completed4 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/15/20267739 S AVALON AVEAvalon Park8Completed13 daysPhone CallCity 311
1/7/20269622 S AVALON AVEPullman8Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
1/7/20268156 S LUELLA AVESouth Chicago8Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
4/14/20268518 S DANTE AVEAvalon Park8Completed1 dayAlderman's OfficeCity 311
5/27/20268448 S YATES AVESouth Chicago8Completed2 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
9/23/20269421 S VERNON AVERoseland8Open—Phone CallCity 311
9/15/20261522 E 71ST PLSouth Shore8Completed13 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
4/7/20267621 S EAST END AVESouth Shore8Completed0 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
1/2/20268357 S CONSTANCE AVEAvalon Park8Completed3 daysInternetCity 311
4/7/20267625 S EAST END AVESouth Shore8Completed0 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
1/5/20267800 S RIDGELAND AVESouth Shore8Completed0 daysInternetCity 311
9/10/20258800 S HARPER AVECalumet Heights8Completed8 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
4/7/20267627 S CORNELL AVESouth Shore8Completed0 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
12/27/20258357 S CONSTANCE AVEAvalon Park8Completed2 daysInternetCity 311
8/17/20268050 S INGLESIDE AVEChatham8Completed7 daysInternetCity 311
9/17/20261710 E 93RD STCalumet Heights8Open—Phone CallCity 311
9/14/2026605 E 89TH PLChatham8Completed14 daysPhone CallCity 311
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