RatCity — Chicago Rat and Rodent Sightings Map

RatCity

4485 locations in the last 30 days (4652 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

52,821 reports match your filters.

DateAddressNeighborhoodWardStatusResponse timeReported viaSource
7/29/20251710 N WINCHESTER AVEWest Town32Completed10 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
7/29/20255254 W AGATITE AVEPortage Park45Completed8 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
7/29/20254941 N DRAKE AVEAlbany Park33Completed10 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
7/29/20251152 N HARDING AVEHumboldt Park37Completed10 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
7/29/20253048 N CLYBOURN AVENorth Center32Completed10 daysInternetCity 311
7/29/20253044 N CLYBOURN AVENorth Center32Completed10 daysInternetCity 311
7/29/20256951 S PARNELL AVEEnglewood6Completed6 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
7/29/20256343 S BISHOP STWest Englewood16Completed14 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
7/29/20251226 W ALTGELD STLincoln Park32Completed10 daysPhone CallCity 311
7/29/20253042 N CLYBOURN AVENorth Center32Completed10 daysInternetCity 311
7/29/20257326 S RACINE AVEWest Englewood17Completed10 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
7/29/20257845 S WOOD STAuburn Gresham17Completed10 daysPhone CallCity 311
7/29/20254756 N MALDEN STUptown46Completed6 daysPhone CallCity 311
7/29/20251356 W WALTON STWest Town27Completed10 daysInternetCity 311
7/29/20251432 W WALTON STWest Town1Completed7 daysInternetCity 311
7/29/20251530 W WALTON STWest Town1Completed10 daysInternetCity 311
7/29/20255349 W CORNELIA AVEPortage Park30Completed9 daysPhone CallCity 311
7/29/20251312 N DAMEN AVEWest Town1Completed9 daysInternetCity 311
7/29/20251330 W CHESTNUT STWest Town27Completed10 daysInternetCity 311
7/29/20255200 S CENTRAL AVEGarfield Ridge23Completed8 daysInternetCity 311
7/29/20251436 W CHESTNUT STWest Town27Completed10 daysInternetCity 311
7/29/20251530 W CHESTNUT STWest Town1Completed10 daysInternetCity 311
7/29/20252724 N LAWNDALE AVELogan Square35Completed9 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
7/29/20251513 W PEARSON STWest Town1Completed10 daysInternetCity 311
7/29/2025948 N NOBLE STWest Town1Completed10 daysInternetCity 311
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