RatCity — Chicago Rat and Rodent Sightings Map

RatCity

4540 locations in the last 30 days (4687 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
9/14/20254437 N KEOKUK AVEIrving Park39Completed10 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/14/20253645 N MOZART STIrving Park35Completed11 daysInternetCity 311
9/14/20257818 W ARDMORE AVENorwood Park41Completed10 daysInternetCity 311
9/14/20253343 N BELL AVENorth Center32Completed11 daysInternetCity 311
9/14/20252837 N MOBILE AVEBelmont Cragin30Completed11 daysInternetCity 311
9/14/20252520 N MARMORA AVEBelmont Cragin30Completed11 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/14/20252309 W ADDISON STNorth Center32Completed8 daysInternetCity 311
9/14/20252059 N LA CROSSE AVEBelmont Cragin26Completed11 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/14/20254914 N KEDZIE AVEAlbany Park33Completed10 daysInternetCity 311
9/14/202510847 S AVENUE CEast Side10Completed5 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/14/2025740 S CLAREMONT AVENear West Side28Completed11 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/14/20252015 N FREMONT STLincoln Park43Completed10 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/14/20251627 W DIVISION STWest Town1Completed9 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/14/202510 E CHICAGO AVENear North Side42Completed2 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/14/20251702 W WABANSIA AVEWest Town32Completed11 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/14/20259200 S DREXEL AVEBurnside8Completed9 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/14/20251705E W LE MOYNE STWest Town1Completed10 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/14/20251152 W NEWPORT AVELake View44Completed9 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/14/20254115 W DICKENS AVEHermosa35Completed9 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/14/2025740 W SCHUBERT AVELincoln Park43Completed5 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/14/20256048 S KEELER AVEWest Lawn13Completed8 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/14/20252821 N RACINE AVELake View44Completed9 daysInternetCity 311
9/14/20256052 S KEELER AVEWest Lawn13Completed8 daysInternetCity 311
9/14/20254952 W ERIE STAustin37Completed11 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/14/20251248 N MAPLEWOOD AVEWest Town26Completed12 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
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