RatCity — Chicago Rat and Rodent Sightings Map

RatCity

4630 locations in the last 30 days (4780 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

55,179 reports match your filters.

DateAddressNeighborhoodWardStatusResponse timeReported viaSource
9/2/20252258 N MANGO AVEBelmont Cragin36Completed10 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/2/20252030 S WABASH AVENear South Side3Completed7 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
9/2/20254436 S WHIPPLE STBrighton Park12Completed9 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
9/2/20251010 N KEYSTONE AVEHumboldt Park37Completed9 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
9/2/20255915 S HONORE STWest Englewood15Completed8 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/2/20258519 S BUFFALO AVESouth Chicago10Completed7 daysInternetCity 311
9/2/20258235 S DREXEL AVEChatham8Completed9 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/2/20258235 S DREXEL AVEChatham8Completed13 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/2/20255228 S MERRIMAC AVEGarfield Ridge23Completed13 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
9/2/20252432 E 73RD STSouth Shore7Completed9 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/2/20254047 W 56TH PLWest Elsdon13Completed13 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
9/2/202513513 S BURLEY AVEHegewisch10Completed7 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/2/20252814 N MEADE AVEBelmont Cragin30Completed13 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/2/20255625 S KILDARE AVEWest Elsdon13Completed14 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
9/2/20255922 N KEATING AVEForest Glen39Completed13 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/2/20255100 S PARKSIDE AVEGarfield Ridge23Completed13 daysInternetCity 311
9/2/202510802 S HALE AVEMorgan Park19Completed9 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
9/2/20253309 S SHIELDS AVEArmour Square11Completed9 daysInternetCity 311
9/2/20252750 W 59TH STGage Park15Completed8 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/2/20257037 N MCALPIN AVEForest Glen45Completed10 daysInternetCity 311
9/2/20257057 N MCALPIN AVEForest Glen45Completed10 daysInternetCity 311
9/2/20255335 S PRINCETON AVEFuller Park20Completed13 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/2/20258350 S MORGAN STAuburn Gresham17Completed8 daysInternetCity 311
9/2/2025834 W ROSCOE STLake View44Completed9 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/2/20255229 S NORMANDY AVEGarfield Ridge23Completed13 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
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