RatCity — Chicago Rat and Rodent Sightings Map

RatCity

4608 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

55,690 reports match your filters.

DateAddressNeighborhoodWardStatusResponse timeReported viaSource
9/16/20252701 W CARMEN AVELincoln Square40Completed9 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/16/20254817 W WEST END AVEAustin28Completed9 daysInternetCity 311
9/16/20255341 W WARNER AVEPortage Park38Completed9 daysInternetCity 311
9/16/2025532 W WRIGHTWOOD AVELincoln Park43Completed10 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
9/16/202510205 S CALIFORNIA AVEBeverly19Completed9 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/16/2025532 W WRIGHTWOOD AVELincoln Park43Completed10 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
9/16/20254100 W MAYPOLE AVEWest Garfield Park28Completed9 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
9/16/2025532 W WRIGHTWOOD AVELincoln Park43Completed10 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
9/16/20251938 N LOWELL AVEHermosa26Completed13 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
9/16/20251215 N MASON AVEAustin29Completed9 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
9/16/2025901 N MOZART STWest Town26Completed13 daysInternetCity 311
9/16/20251629 N MONITOR AVEAustin29Completed7 daysInternetCity 311
9/16/20252110 W WAVELAND AVENorth Center47Completed9 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/16/20255038 N SPRINGFIELD AVEAlbany Park39Completed8 daysInternetCity 311
9/16/20255350 W ARGYLE STJefferson Park45Completed10 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/16/2025949 N MONTICELLO AVEHumboldt Park27Completed13 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/16/20252542 W EASTWOOD AVELincoln Square47Completed9 daysInternetCity 311
9/16/20256857 W HIGGINS AVENorwood Park41Completed9 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/16/20251341 E 89TH PLCalumet Heights8Completed9 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/16/20258152 S DREXEL AVEChatham8Completed9 daysInternetCity 311
9/16/20252236 S KEDVALE AVENorth Lawndale22Completed6 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/16/20252747 S AVERS AVESouth Lawndale22Completed2 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/16/20254159 N MARMORA AVEPortage Park38Completed10 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/16/20254921 N CENTRAL PARK AVEAlbany Park33Completed10 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/16/20256953 W WELLINGTON AVEMontclare36Completed10 daysInternetCity 311
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