RatCity — Chicago Rat and Rodent Sightings Map

RatCity

4755 locations in the last 30 days (4911 reports) · Last sighting 17 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

54,807 reports match your filters.

DateAddressNeighborhoodWardStatusResponse timeReported viaSource
10/13/20251515 E 53RD STHyde Park5Completed4 daysInternetCity 311
12/15/20251515 E 56TH STHyde Park5Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
9/12/20251515 N ARTESIAN AVEWest Town1Completed10 daysInternetCity 311
8/26/20261515 N AVERS AVEHumboldt Park26Completed14 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
9/23/20251515 N AVERS AVEHumboldt Park26Completed8 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
8/12/20261515 N MAPLEWOOD AVEWest Town1Completed2 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/15/20251515 N MAPLEWOOD AVEWest Town1Completed8 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/5/20251515 N ROCKWELL STWest Town1Completed11 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
8/20/20261515 N SPRINGFIELD AVEHumboldt Park26Completed13 daysPhone CallCity 311
8/24/20261515 N WASHTENAW AVEWest Town26Completed16 daysPhone CallCity 311
3/3/20261515 S DRAKE AVENorth Lawndale24Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
6/25/20261515 S HARDING AVENorth Lawndale24Completed5 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/30/20251515 S HARDING AVENorth Lawndale24Completed6 daysPhone CallCity 311
1/13/20261515 S MILLARD AVENorth Lawndale24Completed0 daysInternetCity 311
4/14/20261515 W ESTES AVERogers Park49Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
8/19/20261515 W HADDON AVEWest Town1Completed12 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/25/20261515 W HOLLYWOOD AVEEdgewater48Open—InternetCity 311
5/22/20261515 W HOLLYWOOD AVEEdgewater48Completed5 daysInternetCity 311
6/24/20261515 W HOLLYWOOD AVEEdgewater48Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
5/9/20261515 W JACKSON BLVDNear West Side34Completed1 dayMobile DeviceCity 311
8/2/20251515 W LUNT AVERogers Park49Completed9 daysInternetCity 311
6/9/20261515 W OAKDALE AVELake View32Completed1 dayMobile DeviceCity 311
7/15/20261515 W SUMMERDALE AVEEdgewater40Completed9 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
11/4/20251515 W SUNNYSIDE AVEUptown47Completed2 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
6/15/20261516 E 80TH STAvalon Park8Completed2 daysInternetCity 311
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