RatCity — Chicago Rat and Rodent Sightings Map

RatCity

4573 locations in the last 30 days (4728 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
11/4/20258116 S HARPER AVEAvalon Park8Completed2 daysPhone CallCity 311
7/26/20267508 S MERRILL AVESouth Shore8Completed8 daysPhone CallCity 311
8/5/20259004 S DANTE AVECalumet Heights8Completed7 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
3/24/20267324 S DANTE AVESouth Shore8Completed1 dayAlderman's OfficeCity 311
7/12/2026812 E 82ND STChatham8Completed2 daysInternetCity 311
10/25/20258840 S LUELLA AVECalumet Heights8Completed6 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
8/17/20269100 S CONSTANCE AVECalumet Heights8Completed9 daysPhone CallCity 311
10/3/20258945 S BLACKSTONE AVECalumet Heights8Completed7 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
5/27/20268115 S HARPER AVEAvalon Park8Completed2 daysPhone CallCity 311
3/23/2026706 E 92ND STChatham8Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
5/12/20268600 S MARYLAND AVEChatham8Completed3 daysPhone CallCity 311
8/1/20267514 S RIDGELAND AVESouth Shore8Completed18 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
5/11/20267942 S RIDGELAND AVESouth Chicago8Completed4 daysPhone CallCity 311
7/13/20261033 E 100TH PLPullman8Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
10/25/20258844 S LUELLA AVECalumet Heights8Completed6 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
7/8/2026624 E 95TH STRoseland8Completed6 daysPhone CallCity 311
7/8/20269214 S WOODLAWN AVEBurnside8Completed6 daysPhone CallCity 311
7/6/20268545 S OGLESBY AVESouth Chicago8Completed8 daysPhone CallCity 311
10/13/20258113 S DREXEL AVEChatham8Completed8 daysInternetCity 311
9/6/2026417 E 88TH STChatham8Completed11 daysInternetCity 311
6/26/20269754 S ELLIS AVEPullman8Completed5 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/3/20267952 S CLYDE AVESouth Chicago8Completed14 daysPhone CallCity 311
2/16/20268616 S MARYLAND AVEChatham8Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
9/2/20262337 E 85TH STSouth Chicago8Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
3/30/20261620 E 74TH PLSouth Shore8Completed2 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
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