RatCity — Chicago Rat and Rodent Sightings Map

RatCity

4597 locations in the last 30 days (4753 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

53,915 reports match your filters.

DateAddressNeighborhoodWardStatusResponse timeReported viaSource
10/28/20256935 S PAULINA STWest Englewood17Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
12/11/20256730 S MORGAN STEnglewood16Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
3/17/20263518 W CONGRESS PKWYEast Garfield Park28Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
5/13/20267301 S WABASH AVEGreater Grand Crossing6Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
5/6/20265510 N CHRISTIANA AVENorth Park39Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
1/13/20267756 S DREXEL AVEGreater Grand Crossing8Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
2/3/20265800 W 64TH PLClearing13Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
11/25/20253126 S PRAIRIE AVEDouglas4Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
9/29/20268301 S LOOMIS STAuburn Gresham17Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
1/21/20262414 N KILBOURN AVEHermosa31Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
2/17/20266000 S WOLCOTT AVEWest Englewood16Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
2/10/20263820 N PONTIAC AVEDunning38Completed1 dayMobile DeviceCity 311
2/24/20263700 W 70TH PLWest Lawn23Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
4/21/20261037 W 97TH PLWashington Heights21Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
3/10/20263858 N NORA AVEDunning38Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
4/7/20265623 S WOOD STWest Englewood15Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
4/27/20263229 N NEWLAND AVEDunning36Completed1 dayAlderman's OfficeCity 311
11/13/20251640 W JUNEWAY TERRogers Park49Completed1 dayAlderman's OfficeCity 311
3/4/20266309 N ALBANY AVEWest Ridge50Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
7/15/20261934 W WABANSIA AVEWest Town32Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
7/20/2026917 N LEAMINGTON AVEAustin37Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
4/15/20263252 S WALLACE STBridgeport11Completed1 dayMobile DeviceCity 311
4/8/20263854 W 59TH PLWest Lawn23Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
4/8/20263504 W 85TH PLAshburn18Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
3/19/20262229 N LEAVITT STLogan Square32Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
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