RatCity — Chicago Rat and Rodent Sightings Map

RatCity

4594 locations in the last 30 days (4744 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

54,551 reports match your filters.

DateAddressNeighborhoodWardStatusResponse timeReported viaSource
4/14/20264612 N DRAKE AVEAlbany Park33Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
3/11/20262705 W CARMEN AVELincoln Square40Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
4/22/20265646 W 63RD STClearing13Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
2/23/20265659 S NEENAH AVEGarfield Ridge13Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
11/6/20257316 N DAMEN AVERogers Park49Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
2/19/20267919 S LAFLIN STAuburn Gresham17Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
12/18/20251157 W CULLERTON STLower West Side25Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
7/26/20269804 S INGLESIDE AVEPullman8Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
6/15/20268418 S GILBERT CTAuburn Gresham21Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
12/4/20251349 W ANCONA STWest Town27Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
4/19/20265217 S KENWOOD AVEHyde Park4Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
4/7/20263349 W 109TH STMount Greenwood19Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
4/14/20266709 W 64TH PLClearing13Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
3/30/202610831 S WHIPPLE STMount Greenwood19Completed1 dayAlderman's OfficeCity 311
3/12/20263829 W GRAND AVEHumboldt Park36Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
3/16/20262739 N DRAKE AVELogan Square35Completed1 dayAlderman's OfficeCity 311
11/13/20252805 N MERRIMAC AVEBelmont Cragin30Completed1 dayAlderman's OfficeCity 311
5/7/20261352 S KOMENSKY AVENorth Lawndale24Completed1 dayAlderman's OfficeCity 311
5/17/20263734 S NORMAL AVEBridgeport11Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
11/24/20255988 N MANTON AVEJefferson Park39Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
4/16/20261401 S HAMLIN AVENorth Lawndale24Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
2/26/2026654 N LOCKWOOD AVEAustin37Completed1 dayAlderman's OfficeCity 311
4/7/20266326 S WINCHESTER AVEWest Englewood16Completed1 dayAlderman's OfficeCity 311
2/10/20264300 W WILCOX STWest Garfield Park28Completed1 dayMobile DeviceCity 311
4/15/20263745 N OLEANDER AVEDunning38Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
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