RatCity — Chicago Rat and Rodent Sightings Map

RatCity

4541 locations in the last 30 days (4688 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

55,547 reports match your filters.

DateAddressNeighborhoodWardStatusResponse timeReported viaSource
9/13/20252950 N SHEFFIELD AVELake View44Completed10 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/13/20251533 N KEYSTONE AVEHumboldt Park26Completed13 daysInternetCity 311
9/13/20254420 N MAPLEWOOD AVELincoln Square47Completed11 daysInternetCity 311
9/13/20253239 S MAY STBridgeport11Completed11 daysInternetCity 311
9/13/20252339 W RICE STWest Town36Completed12 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/13/20253652 N SAYRE AVEDunning38Completed12 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/13/20254249 N CENTRAL PARK AVEIrving Park33Completed10 daysInternetCity 311
9/13/20256143 S SEELEY AVEWest Englewood16Completed10 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/13/20252710 W CHASE AVEWest Ridge50Completed10 daysInternetCity 311
9/13/20253414 N ELAINE PLLake View44Completed10 daysInternetCity 311
9/14/20254411 N HAMILTON AVELincoln Square47Completed11 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/14/20254554 S DREXEL AVEKenwood4Completed9 daysInternetCity 311
9/14/20255806 N TALMAN AVEWest Ridge40Completed9 daysInternetCity 311
9/14/20255809 N WASHTENAW AVEWest Ridge40Completed9 daysInternetCity 311
9/14/20255225 W NELSON STBelmont Cragin31Completed10 daysInternetCity 311
9/14/20253056 N RACINE AVELake View32Completed8 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/14/20254620 N KARLOV AVEAlbany Park39Completed9 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/14/20255230 N LARAMIE AVEJefferson Park45Completed10 daysInternetCity 311
9/14/20257345 N HOYNE AVERogers Park49Completed9 daysInternetCity 311
9/14/20254155 N RICHMOND STIrving Park33Completed10 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/14/20252520 N SHEFFIELD AVELincoln Park43Completed10 daysInternetCity 311
9/14/20253120 N OKETO AVEDunning29Completed8 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/14/20254101 N BROADWAYUptown46Completed10 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/14/20254622 N KARLOV AVEAlbany Park39Completed10 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/14/20256430 N GLENWOOD AVERogers Park49Completed9 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
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