RatCity — Chicago Rat and Rodent Sightings Map

RatCity

4536 locations in the last 30 days (4690 reports) · Last sighting yesterday

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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
12/9/20255401 S LOCKWOOD AVEGarfield Ridge23Completed1 dayAlderman's OfficeCity 311
3/3/20261535 N WELLS STNear North Side2Completed1 dayAlderman's OfficeCity 311
4/8/20264909 W WINNEMAC AVEForest Glen45Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
12/1/2025853 W LAWRENCE AVEUptown46Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
11/25/20254351 S SACRAMENTO AVEBrighton Park12Completed1 dayMobile DeviceCity 311
5/21/20265611 S MORGAN STEnglewood16Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
4/23/20261443 E 53RD STHyde Park5Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
3/26/20262751 N SEMINARY AVELincoln Park43Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
11/6/20252222 N WAYNE AVELincoln Park2Completed1 dayMobile DeviceCity 311
2/10/20263911 N HAMILTON AVENorth Center47Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
4/12/20264757 N MALDEN STUptown46Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
4/27/20262019 N KARLOV AVEHermosa26Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
3/23/20263648 S HOYNE AVEMcKinley Park12Completed1 dayAlderman's OfficeCity 311
5/3/20264016 W 58TH PLWest Elsdon13Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
1/14/20266250 N KENMORE AVEEdgewater48Completed1 dayAlderman's OfficeCity 311
2/5/20266334 W 63RD PLClearing13Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
3/17/20267047 S CALIFORNIA AVEChicago Lawn17Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
4/21/20268239 W IRVING PARK RDDunning38Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
10/22/20252931 W LUNT AVEWest Ridge50Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
11/5/20257346 N DAMEN AVERogers Park49Completed1 dayMobile DeviceCity 311
8/20/20261906 W BERWYN AVELincoln Square40Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
4/9/20261473 W 114TH PLMorgan Park21Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
11/13/202510625 S MILLARD AVEMount Greenwood19Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
2/5/20268300 S PEORIA STAuburn Gresham17Completed1 dayMobile DeviceCity 311
9/21/20261614 W CATALPA AVEEdgewater40Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
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