RatCity — Chicago Rat and Rodent Sightings Map

RatCity

4431 locations in the last 30 days (4586 reports) · Last sighting 23 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

56,073 reports match your filters.

DateAddressNeighborhoodWardStatusResponse timeReported viaSource
9/23/20254842 W MEDILL AVEBelmont Cragin31Completed9 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
9/23/20256313 W BERTEAU AVEPortage Park38Completed8 daysInternetCity 311
9/23/20254505 S CALIFORNIA AVEBrighton Park12Completed3 daysInternetCity 311
9/23/20255533 S KIMBARK AVEHyde Park5Completed9 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/23/20251722 W 48TH STNew City15Completed8 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/23/20253800 N NEWCASTLE AVEDunning38Completed8 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/23/20253500 N ODELL AVEDunning38Completed9 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/23/20253500 N OCTAVIA AVEDunning38Completed8 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/23/2025150 W MAPLE STNear North Side27Completed7 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/23/20253240 N OCONTO AVEDunning29Completed9 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/23/20251024 W FRY STWest Town27Completed7 daysInternetCity 311
9/23/20252960 N ELSTON AVEAvondale35Completed10 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/23/2025345 W 42ND PLFuller Park3Completed9 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/23/202511410 S CARPENTER STMorgan Park21Completed7 daysInternetCity 311
9/23/20255400 S LONG AVEGarfield Ridge23Completed9 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
9/23/20255401 S LONG AVEGarfield Ridge23Completed9 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
9/23/20255400 S LOREL AVEGarfield Ridge23Completed9 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
9/23/20255401 S LOREL AVEGarfield Ridge23Completed9 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
9/23/202510844 S HALSTED STMorgan Park21Completed7 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/23/20251614 N LECLAIRE AVEAustin37Completed7 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
9/23/20256742 W 64TH PLClearing13Completed8 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/23/20255118 W NORTH AVEAustin37Completed7 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
9/23/20252323 W ADDISON STNorth Center32Completed9 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/23/20253237 W 66TH STChicago Lawn14Completed10 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
9/23/20251464 W OHIO STWest Town1Completed7 daysInternetCity 311
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