RatCity — Chicago Rat and Rodent Sightings Map

RatCity

4629 locations in the last 30 days (4778 reports) · Last sighting 21 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

55,375 reports match your filters.

DateAddressNeighborhoodWardStatusResponse timeReported viaSource
2/12/20266034 S MENARD AVEClearing13Completed0 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
5/19/20266419 S HARLEM AVEClearing13Completed2 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
2/3/20264521 W 64TH STWest Lawn13Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
1/12/20265627 S NAGLE AVEGarfield Ridge13Completed1 dayMobile DeviceCity 311
7/20/20264125 W 56TH PLWest Elsdon13Completed10 daysInternetCity 311
1/12/20266049 S MAYFIELD AVEClearing13Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
2/12/20266637 S KOSTNER AVEWest Lawn13Completed0 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
6/12/20266541 S KARLOV AVEWest Lawn13Completed3 daysPhone CallCity 311
10/17/20255912 W 64TH PLClearing13Completed4 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
10/17/20255918 W 64TH PLClearing13Completed4 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
10/14/20255944 W 64TH PLClearing13Completed7 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
6/1/20265616 S NARRAGANSETT AVEGarfield Ridge13Completed2 daysInternetCity 311
8/29/20255814 S NOTTINGHAM AVEGarfield Ridge13Completed14 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
5/19/20265645 W 63RD PLClearing13Completed2 daysInternetCity 311
6/1/20265701 S NEENAH AVEGarfield Ridge13Completed2 daysPhone CallCity 311
2/4/20265937 S KILBOURN AVEWest Lawn13Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
2/4/20265735 W 64TH PLClearing13Completed1 dayAlderman's OfficeCity 311
1/12/20266232 S TRIPP AVEWest Lawn13Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
1/12/20266604 S KOSTNER AVEWest Lawn13Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
7/21/20266535 S KENNETH AVEWest Lawn13Completed9 daysPhone CallCity 311
1/12/20266148 S PARKSIDE AVEClearing13Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
2/20/20265738 S NATCHEZ AVEGarfield Ridge13Completed3 daysInternetCity 311
1/12/20266125 S MAJOR AVEClearing13Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
5/20/20266625 S KOSTNER AVEWest Lawn13Completed2 daysPhone CallCity 311
1/12/20266136 S MASSASOIT AVEClearing13Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
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