RatCity — Chicago Rat and Rodent Sightings Map

RatCity

4625 locations in the last 30 days (4781 reports) · Last sighting 21 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
11/6/202510048 S LAFAYETTE AVERoseland9Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
10/1/20259936 S WALLACE STWashington Heights9Completed9 daysPhone CallCity 311
3/2/202612441 S EGGLESTON AVEWest Pullman9Completed3 daysInternetCity 311
10/7/202510843 S PRAIRIE AVERoseland9Completed3 daysPhone CallCity 311
4/6/202612848 S PARNELL AVEWest Pullman9Completed0 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/16/202610555 S RHODES AVERoseland9Completed13 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
4/6/202610829 S STATE STRoseland9Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
4/6/202610117 S INDIANA AVERoseland9Completed1 dayMobile DeviceCity 311
11/6/202524 W 103RD STRoseland9Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
3/4/202612432 S PRINCETON AVEWest Pullman9Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
10/3/2025552 W 126TH STWest Pullman9Completed7 daysPhone CallCity 311
1/7/202610000 S CALUMET AVERoseland9Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
10/3/2025525 W 128TH STWest Pullman9Completed7 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/23/202612432 S PRINCETON AVEWest Pullman9Open—Phone CallCity 311
4/6/202610544 S LAFAYETTE AVERoseland9Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
4/6/2026237 W 109TH PLRoseland9Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
11/6/202513136 S RHODES AVERiverdale9Completed1 dayMobile DeviceCity 311
6/3/202610744 S VERNON AVERoseland9Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
3/2/202612406 S NORMAL AVEWest Pullman9Completed3 daysPhone CallCity 311
6/3/202610567 S WENTWORTH AVERoseland9Completed1 dayAlderman's OfficeCity 311
10/14/20259845 S MICHIGAN AVERoseland9Completed8 daysPhone CallCity 311
4/6/2026112 W 113TH PLRoseland9Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
6/2/202612103 S STEWART AVEWest Pullman9Completed2 daysPhone CallCity 311
6/2/202612439 S UNION AVEWest Pullman9Completed2 daysPhone CallCity 311
6/3/202612712 S PEORIA STWest Pullman9Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
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