RatCity — Chicago Rat and Rodent Sightings Map

RatCity

4659 locations in the last 30 days (4810 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

55,179 reports match your filters.

DateAddressNeighborhoodWardStatusResponse timeReported viaSource
3/25/20261642 N KEELER AVEHumboldt Park26Completed0 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/30/20261642 N NORTH NORTH PARK AVELincoln Park2Completed5 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
9/29/20261642 N SAWYER AVEHumboldt Park26Open—Phone CallCity 311
9/12/20251642 N TRIPP AVEHumboldt Park26Completed13 daysPhone CallCity 311
2/11/20261642 S FAIRFIELD AVENorth Lawndale24Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
7/29/20251642 S FAIRFIELD AVENorth Lawndale24Completed10 daysInternetCity 311
3/22/20261642 W 44TH STNew City15Completed2 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
3/23/20261642 W 44TH STNew City15Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
7/20/20261642 W 55TH STNew City16Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
12/1/20251642 W 81ST STAuburn Gresham17Completed2 daysInternetCity 311
7/6/20261642 W 93RD PLWashington Heights21Completed9 daysInternetCity 311
4/6/20261642 W BERWYN AVEEdgewater40Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
11/4/20251642 W COLUMBIA AVERogers Park49Completed2 daysPhone CallCity 311
7/31/20261642 W COLUMBIA AVERogers Park49Completed12 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/17/20261642 W COLUMBIA AVERogers Park49Completed8 daysPhone CallCity 311
6/29/20261642 W JARVIS AVERogers Park49Completed7 daysInternetCity 311
6/4/20261642 W PRATT AVERogers Park49Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
9/29/20261643 N KEDZIE AVEHumboldt Park26Open—Mobile DeviceCity 311
3/13/20261643 N OAKLEY AVEWest Town32Completed4 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
2/25/20261643 N OAKLEY AVEWest Town32Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
5/16/20261643 N TALMAN AVEWest Town26Completed3 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
8/12/20261643 N TALMAN AVEWest Town26Completed8 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
8/3/20261643 N TROY STHumboldt Park26Completed14 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
7/9/20261643 N WHIPPLE STHumboldt Park26Completed6 daysPhone CallCity 311
10/20/20251643 N WHIPPLE STHumboldt Park26Completed4 daysPhone CallCity 311
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