RatCity — Chicago Rat and Rodent Sightings Map

RatCity

4335 locations in the last 30 days (4494 reports) · Last sighting 2 days 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

52,482 reports match your filters.

DateAddressNeighborhoodWardStatusResponse timeReported viaSource
7/8/20261000 W WELLINGTON AVELake View44Completed9 daysPhone CallCity 311
8/15/202510010 S VERNON AVERoseland9Completed12 daysInternetCity 311
8/10/202610011 S BENSLEY AVESouth Deering7Completed9 daysInternetCity 311
11/24/202510011 S WENTWORTH AVERoseland9Completed2 daysPhone CallCity 311
8/3/202510013 S FAIRFIELD AVEBeverly19Completed11 daysInternetCity 311
10/4/202510013 S LOWE AVEWashington Heights9Completed6 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/1/202610014 S LASALLE STRoseland9Completed10 daysPhone CallCity 311
12/2/202510014 S WENTWORTH AVERoseland9Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
8/22/202510014 S WENTWORTH AVERoseland9Completed12 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
11/24/202510014 S WENTWORTH AVERoseland9Completed2 daysPhone CallCity 311
2/6/202610015 S LOWE AVEWashington Heights9Completed3 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
8/15/202610015 S YALE AVERoseland9Completed11 daysPhone CallCity 311
8/15/202510016 S PROSPECT AVEBeverly19Completed10 daysInternetCity 311
7/7/202610017 S PARNELL AVEWashington Heights9Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
8/25/202510017 S PARNELL AVEWashington Heights9Completed9 daysInternetCity 311
4/15/202610017 S YALE AVERoseland9Completed1 dayMobile DeviceCity 311
7/13/202610018 S EBERHART AVERoseland9Completed8 daysInternetCity 311
2/26/202610018 S PRINCETON AVERoseland9Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
2/23/202610018 S PRINCETON AVERoseland9Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
4/9/202610018 S PRINCETON AVERoseland9Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
1/25/202610018 S SANGAMON STWashington Heights21Completed2 daysInternetCity 311
3/17/202610018 S STATE STRoseland9Completed2 daysInternetCity 311
1/27/20261001 N PULASKI RDHumboldt Park37Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
1/28/20261001 N RICHMOND STWest Town26Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
7/28/20251001 N RICHMOND STWest Town26Completed9 daysInternetCity 311
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