RatCity — Chicago Rat and Rodent Sightings Map

RatCity

4673 locations in the last 30 days (4824 reports) · Last sighting 18 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
4/13/20261345 S MORGAN STNear West Side28Completed1 dayMobile DeviceCity 311
4/1/20264915 W WINNEMAC AVEForest Glen45Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
1/28/20265402 W ARDMORE AVEJefferson Park39Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
5/27/20264323 W SHAKESPEARE AVEHermosa35Completed1 dayMobile DeviceCity 311
4/6/20263056 S BROAD STBridgeport11Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
10/20/20256143 S SEELEY AVEWest Englewood16Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
4/29/20265271 N NORTHWEST HWYJefferson Park45Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
10/20/202525 S OAKLEY BLVDNear West Side27Completed1 dayMobile DeviceCity 311
11/13/20254349 W LEXINGTON STWest Garfield Park24Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
3/23/20266149 N BROADWAYEdgewater48Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
9/8/20267004 N ROCKWELL STWest Ridge50Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
4/23/20261253 N ROCKWELL STWest Town26Completed1 dayMobile DeviceCity 311
9/9/20253214 W LELAND AVEAlbany Park33Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
9/7/20264818 S CORNELL AVEKenwood5Completed1 dayMobile DeviceCity 311
1/7/20261414 W GRAND AVEWest Town1Completed1 dayMobile DeviceCity 311
10/20/20252635 N SHEFFIELD AVELincoln Park43Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
4/22/20263542 N OAKLEY AVENorth Center32Completed1 dayMobile DeviceCity 311
1/13/20261400 N RIDGEWAY AVEHumboldt Park26Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
5/14/20261534 W FARWELL AVERogers Park49Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
12/15/20255711 W EDDY STPortage Park30Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
3/17/20268226 S KOMENSKY AVEAshburn18Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
3/23/20263506 N ASHLAND AVELake View47Completed1 dayMobile DeviceCity 311
4/6/20266839 S WOLCOTT AVEWest Englewood17Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
11/20/20252225 W ADAMS STNear West Side27Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
11/4/20254108 W CERMAK RDNorth Lawndale24Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
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