RatCity — Chicago Rat and Rodent Sightings Map

RatCity

4617 locations in the last 30 days (4763 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

55,375 reports match your filters.

DateAddressNeighborhoodWardStatusResponse timeReported viaSource
9/2/20251865 N MAUD AVELincoln Park43Completed10 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
4/16/20262018 N FREMONT STLincoln Park43Completed3 daysInternetCity 311
4/17/20261630 N DAYTON STLincoln Park43Completed3 daysInternetCity 311
4/16/20261940 N MAUD AVELincoln Park43Completed4 daysInternetCity 311
4/16/20262713 N MARSHFIELD AVELincoln Park32Completed1 dayMobile DeviceCity 311
8/25/20251255 W WEBSTER AVELincoln Park2Completed3 daysInternetCity 311
9/2/20251728 N DAYTON STLincoln Park43Completed10 daysPhone CallCity 311
8/23/20252235 N CLYBOURN AVELincoln Park2Completed5 daysInternetCity 311
8/21/2025432 W GRANT PLLincoln Park43Completed13 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
8/25/20252135 N RACINE AVELincoln Park2Completed3 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
8/21/2025432 W GRANT PLLincoln Park43Completed13 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
8/31/20251918 N CLEVELAND AVELincoln Park43Completed12 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
8/31/20251860 N BISSELL STLincoln Park43Completed12 daysPhone CallCity 311
8/30/20251702 N BISSELL STLincoln Park43Completed13 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
12/22/20252732 N WAYNE AVELincoln Park32Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
12/22/20252454 N ORCHARD STLincoln Park43Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
9/22/2025179 E LAKE SHORE DRNear North Side2Completed7 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/25/2025375 W ELM STNear North Side27Completed12 daysInternetCity 311
4/26/20263 E HURON STNear North Side42Completed1 dayMobile DeviceCity 311
8/29/2025103 W CHESTNUT STNear North Side2Completed13 daysInternetCity 311
8/27/202524 W ERIE STNear North Side42Completed6 daysInternetCity 311
9/8/20261424 N ORLEANS STNear North Side27Completed9 daysInternetCity 311
12/12/20251446 N NORTH NORTH PARK AVENear North Side2Completed3 daysPhone CallCity 311
8/17/20251540 N ORLEANS STNear North Side27Completed12 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
10/9/20259 W WALTON STNear North Side42Completed1 dayMobile DeviceCity 311
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