RatCity — Chicago Rat and Rodent Sightings Map

RatCity

4630 locations in the last 30 days (4780 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

55,179 reports match your filters.

DateAddressNeighborhoodWardStatusResponse timeReported viaSource
5/3/20261715 N SHEFFIELD AVELincoln Park2Completed3 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
8/11/20252121 N LARRABEE STLincoln Park43Completed14 daysPhone CallCity 311
8/11/20252115 N LARRABEE STLincoln Park43Completed14 daysPhone CallCity 311
8/21/2025800 W ALTGELD STLincoln Park43Completed13 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
8/28/20252254 N RACINE AVELincoln Park2Completed13 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
8/28/20262046 N ORLEANSLincoln Park43Completed11 daysSalesforce Mobile AppCity 311
4/19/20261639 N NORTH PARK AVELincoln Park2Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
9/1/20251226 W MONTANA STLincoln Park32Completed10 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
10/3/20252200 N HALSTED STLincoln Park43Completed7 daysPhone CallCity 311
5/2/20262716 N MARSHFIELD AVELincoln Park32Completed2 daysInternetCity 311
12/17/20252736 N KENMORE AVELincoln Park43Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
8/28/2026600 W FULLERTONLincoln Park43Completed11 daysSalesforce Mobile AppCity 311
10/3/20252525 N CLARKLincoln Park43Completed7 daysSalesforce Mobile AppCity 311
12/17/2025640 W WRIGHTWOOD AVELincoln Park43Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
12/17/20251816 N HALSTEDLincoln Park43Completed1 daySalesforce Mobile AppCity 311
12/17/202530 W NORTH BLVDLincoln Park43Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
8/20/20252229 N SEMINARY AVELincoln Park43Completed5 daysPhone CallCity 311
8/30/2026953 W WEBSTER AVELincoln Park43Completed12 daysInternetCity 311
8/5/20252454 N SEMINARY AVELincoln Park43Completed10 daysPhone CallCity 311
5/3/20261720 N CLYBOURN AVELincoln Park2Completed3 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/29/20251523 W MONTANA STLincoln Park32Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
9/22/20251523 W MONTANA AVELincoln Park32Completed8 daysInternetCity 311
8/25/2025919 W WRIGHTWOOD AVELincoln Park43Completed11 daysPhone CallCity 311
8/27/2026922 W MONTANA STLincoln Park43Completed12 daysInternetCity 311
8/23/2025822 W LILL AVELincoln Park43Completed11 daysInternetCity 311
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