RatCity — Chicago Rat and Rodent Sightings Map

RatCity

4578 locations in the last 30 days (4731 reports) · Last sighting 14 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

54,350 reports match your filters.

DateAddressNeighborhoodWardStatusResponse timeReported viaSource
8/22/20262814 N SHEFFIELD AVELake View44Completed11 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
7/6/20263019 N LINCOLN AVELake View32Completed8 daysInternetCity 311
9/16/20264007 N PAULINA STLake View47Completed14 daysInternetCity 311
8/28/20253514 N BOSWORTH AVELake View47Completed13 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/17/20263835 N FREMONT STLake View46Completed13 daysInternetCity 311
3/10/2026555 W CORNEILA AVELake View46Completed2 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
7/14/2026914 W BARRY AVELake View44Completed12 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
7/29/20251401 W WARNER AVELake View47Completed9 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
6/29/20261614 W ROSCOE STLake View47Completed7 daysInternetCity 311
7/1/20263448 N ELAINE PLLake View44Completed5 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
7/7/20263147 N CAMBRIDGE AVELake View44Completed6 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
8/4/20251434 W BELLE PLAINE AVELake View47Completed11 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
6/17/20262824 N LINCOLN AVELake View32Completed5 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
10/23/20253621 N ASHLAND AVELake View47Completed6 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
3/15/20261400 W IRVING PARK RDLake View47Completed2 daysInternetCity 311
11/13/20253251 N BROADWAYLake View44Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
10/2/20261228 W DIVERSEY AVELake View32Open—Phone CallCity 311
4/13/20261234 W GEORGE STLake View32Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
9/20/20263625 N RAVENSWOOD AVELake View47Completed12 daysInternetCity 311
4/12/20261755 W HENDERSON STLake View32Completed1 dayMobile DeviceCity 311
9/29/20253400 N BOSWORTH AVELake View47Completed8 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
11/13/20253534 N FREMONT STLake View44Completed1 dayMobile DeviceCity 311
10/27/20254319 N ASHLAND AVELake View47Completed2 daysInternetCity 311
10/5/20253835 N RAVENSWOOD AVELake View47Completed4 daysInternetCity 311
5/18/2026818 W DAKIN STLake View46Completed8 daysInternetCity 311
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