RatCity — Chicago Rat and Rodent Sightings Map

RatCity

4607 locations in the last 30 days (4760 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

54,983 reports match your filters.

DateAddressNeighborhoodWardStatusResponse timeReported viaSource
9/28/20261946 N CLARK STLincoln Park43Completed9 daysInternetCity 311
8/12/20261723 N SHEFFIELD AVELincoln Park2Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
8/3/20251909 N LARRABEE STLincoln Park43Completed4 daysInternetCity 311
7/28/20252728 N RACINE AVELincoln Park32Completed8 daysInternetCity 311
9/1/20261312 W WEBSTER AVELincoln Park2Completed14 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/21/20262542 N ASHLAND AVELincoln Park32Completed14 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
7/22/2026505 W GRANT PLLincoln Park43Completed12 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
7/29/20262717 N SEMINARY AVELincoln Park43Completed8 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/3/20262658 N GREENVIEW AVELincoln Park32Completed13 daysInternetCity 311
7/30/20252704 N MAGNOLIA AVELincoln Park32Completed9 daysPhone CallCity 311
8/18/20262034 N DAYTON STLincoln Park43Completed14 daysInternetCity 311
8/5/20262442 N SOUTHPORT AVELincoln Park32Completed9 daysInternetCity 311
7/24/20262750 N RACINE AVELincoln Park32Completed13 daysInternetCity 311
9/29/20262521 N WAYNE AVELincoln Park32Open—Phone CallCity 311
9/23/2026541 W WRIGHTWOOD AVELincoln Park43Completed12 daysInternetCity 311
6/8/20262042 N LINCOLN PARK WESTLincoln Park43Completed3 daysInternetCity 311
10/3/20261255 W WEBSTER AVELincoln Park2Open—InternetCity 311
8/6/20262448 N SOUTHPORT AVELincoln Park32Completed8 daysInternetCity 311
9/18/2026824 W WEBSTER AVELincoln Park43Completed11 daysInternetCity 311
7/28/2026432 W BELDEN AVELincoln Park43Completed9 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
8/6/20262206 N BURLING STLincoln Park43Completed15 daysInternetCity 311
7/24/2025632 W SCHUBERT AVELincoln Park43Completed11 daysInternetCity 311
7/30/20261009 W ALTGELD STLincoln Park43Completed7 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/23/20262327 N HALSTED STLincoln Park43Completed12 daysPhone CallCity 311
10/1/20261742 N BISSELL STLincoln Park43Open—Mobile DeviceCity 311
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