RatCity — Chicago Rat and Rodent Sightings Map

RatCity

4667 locations in the last 30 days (4818 reports) · Last sighting 19 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
3/26/202610051 S CRANDON AVESouth Deering7Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
9/4/20252719 W CHASE AVEWest Ridge50Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
2/17/20261910 N CALIFORNIA AVELogan Square1Completed1 dayMobile DeviceCity 311
3/26/2026749 W CORNELIA AVELake View44Completed1 dayMobile DeviceCity 311
4/7/20265818 N ODELL AVENorwood Park41Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
2/26/20261755 W CHASE AVERogers Park49Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
12/11/20251727 S NEWBERRY AVELower West Side25Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
11/20/20256000 W HENDERSON STDunning30Completed1 dayAlderman's OfficeCity 311
1/21/20265719 W GOODMAN STJefferson Park45Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
11/20/20253110 W LOGAN BLVDLogan Square35Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
7/20/20261642 W 55TH STNew City16Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
9/22/20253753 W 69TH PLWest Lawn23Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
12/10/20256759 S MARSHFIELD AVEWest Englewood16Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
11/4/20255800 W 64TH PLClearing13Completed1 dayAlderman's OfficeCity 311
12/1/2025507 W FULLERTON AVELincoln Park43Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
4/6/20261447 E 53RD STHyde Park5Completed1 dayMobile DeviceCity 311
12/2/20253924 N SOUTHPORT AVELake View46Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
4/20/2026517 W 26TH STBridgeport11Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
6/14/2026923 N HONORE STWest Town36Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
8/24/20265332 S LATROBE AVEGarfield Ridge23Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
6/22/20263212 S RACINE AVEBridgeport11Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
7/29/20266010 W WAVELAND AVEDunning38Completed1 dayMobile DeviceCity 311
10/16/20252651 W RASCHER AVELincoln Square40Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
5/4/20261839 S MAY STLower West Side25Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
5/4/20262052 N HALSTED STLincoln Park43Completed1 dayAlderman's OfficeCity 311
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