RatCity — Chicago Rat and Rodent Sightings Map

RatCity

4550 locations in the last 30 days (4719 reports) · Last sighting 16 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

52,821 reports match your filters.

DateAddressNeighborhoodWardStatusResponse timeReported viaSource
11/21/20251041 W ALBION AVERogers Park49Completed5 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
11/23/20251155 W FARWELL AVERogers Park49Completed3 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
1/8/20262000 W BIRCHWOOD AVERogers Park49Completed4 daysPhone CallCity 311
11/22/20252023 W CHASE AVERogers Park49Completed4 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/3/20251666 W FARWELL AVERogers Park49Completed9 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/14/20261128 W ALBION AVERogers Park49Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
5/10/20266633 N SHERIDAN RDRogers Park49Completed9 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
11/26/20252018 W BIRCHWOOD AVERogers Park49Completed2 daysPhone CallCity 311
2/20/20266464 N CLARK STRogers Park40Completed3 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/14/20267352 N HOYNE AVERogers Park49Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
2/23/20266559 N GLENWOOD AVERogers Park49Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
2/23/20261717 W NORTH SHORE AVERogers Park49Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
2/24/20261791 W GREENLEAF AVERogers Park49Completed1 dayMobile DeviceCity 311
1/21/20266572 N SHERIDAN RDRogers Park49Completed1 dayMobile DeviceCity 311
2/26/20261755 W CHASE AVERogers Park49Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
6/3/20267351 N HOYNE AVERogers Park49Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
2/26/20266811 N LAKEWOOD AVERogers Park49Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
2/27/20267220 N ROGERS AVERogers Park49Completed4 daysPhone CallCity 311
10/12/20256633 N SHERIDAN RDRogers Park49Completed4 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
2/27/20261511 W ALBION AVERogers Park49Completed4 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
5/14/20261628 W JUNEWAY TERRogers Park49Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
5/14/20261534 W FARWELL AVERogers Park49Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
9/14/20267383 N WINCHESTER AVERogers Park49Completed2 daysInternetCity 311
10/12/20251447 W ARTHUR AVERogers Park49Completed4 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
3/20/20267559 N ROGERS AVERogers Park49Completed0 daysPhone CallCity 311
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