RatCity — Chicago Rat and Rodent Sightings Map

RatCity

4714 locations in the last 30 days (4868 reports) · Last sighting 14 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
7/23/20264227 S ALBANY AVEBrighton Park12Completed6 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/7/20253444 S HOYNE AVEMcKinley Park12Completed9 daysspot-open311-CHITEXTCity 311
5/11/20264414 S ROCKWELL STBrighton Park12Completed2 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
10/10/20253627 S OAKLEY AVEMcKinley Park12Completed7 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
5/29/20263239 S LEAVITT STMcKinley Park12Completed4 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
7/17/20261858 W PERSHING RDMcKinley Park12Completed12 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
5/13/20263144 W 39TH PLBrighton Park12Completed2 daysInternetCity 311
5/8/20264440 S SAWYER AVEBrighton Park12Completed4 daysPhone CallCity 311
6/7/20264125 S CAMPBELL AVEBrighton Park12Completed3 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
5/29/20264037 S MAPLEWOOD AVEBrighton Park12Completed3 daysInternetCity 311
6/6/20264510 S DAMEN AVENew City12Completed4 daysInternetCity 311
1/31/20262038 W 35TH STMcKinley Park12Completed1 dayMobile DeviceCity 311
5/29/20263945 S TALMAN AVEBrighton Park12Completed3 daysPhone CallCity 311
6/16/20263400 S HAMILTON AVEMcKinley Park12Completed2 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
2/16/20264641 S WASHTENAW AVEBrighton Park12Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
6/5/20263812 S HONORE STMcKinley Park12Completed5 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
6/17/20264416 S TROY STBrighton Park12Completed7 daysPhone CallCity 311
6/6/20263834 S HERMITAGE AVEMcKinley Park12Completed4 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
5/17/20262414 W 35TH STMcKinley Park12Completed3 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
2/3/20264330 S ROCKWELL STBrighton Park12Completed1 dayAlderman's OfficeCity 311
5/18/20264143 S CAMPBELL AVEBrighton Park12Completed2 daysPhone CallCity 311
6/16/20263300 S HAMILTON AVEMcKinley Park12Completed2 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
7/21/20263029 W 38TH PLBrighton Park12Completed8 daysPhone CallCity 311
1/8/20265805 W 63RD PLClearing13Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
1/8/20265901 W 63RD PLClearing13Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
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