RatCity — Chicago Rat and Rodent Sightings Map

RatCity

4220 locations in the last 30 days (4375 reports) · Last sighting 2 days 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

56,145 reports match your filters.

DateAddressNeighborhoodWardStatusResponse timeReported viaSource
3/28/20261737 W FARRAGUT AVEEdgewater40Completed2 daysInternetCity 311
5/16/20265700 W SCHOOL STPortage Park30Completed2 daysPhone CallCity 311
2/14/20262749 N TROY STLogan Square35Completed2 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
2/17/20264104 W FIFTH AVEWest Garfield Park24Completed2 daysPhone CallCity 311
2/2/202658 E WALTON STNear North Side42Completed2 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
11/17/20252654 W CARMEN AVELincoln Square40Completed2 daysInternetCity 311
4/6/20261253 W FLOURNOY STNear West Side34Completed2 daysInternetCity 311
4/19/20262654 W RASCHER AVELincoln Square40Completed2 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
11/17/20252648 W CARMEN AVELincoln Square40Completed2 daysInternetCity 311
12/27/20252059 N LA CROSSE AVEBelmont Cragin26Completed2 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
5/27/20265724 S MOODY AVEGarfield Ridge13Completed2 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
5/19/20265858 S OAK PARK AVEGarfield Ridge13Completed2 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
6/23/20262311 W 50TH PLGage Park15Completed2 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
11/22/20252611 W HIRSCH STWest Town26Completed2 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
3/25/20262309 W ADDISON STNorth Center32Completed2 daysInternetCity 311
5/12/20262801 W FARGO AVEWest Ridge50Completed2 daysPhone CallCity 311
6/20/20262338 N AVERS AVELogan Square35Completed2 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
3/10/2026846 W NEWPORT AVELake View44Completed2 daysInternetCity 311
6/22/20262409 S RIDGEWAY AVESouth Lawndale22Completed2 daysInternetCity 311
11/3/20252817 W FULLERTON AVELogan Square1Completed2 daysPhone CallCity 311
6/3/20263549 N SEELEY AVENorth Center47Completed2 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
3/1/20266209 W BERTEAU AVEPortage Park38Completed2 daysInternetCity 311
6/21/20264919 S WASHINGTON PARK CTGrand Boulevard20Completed2 daysInternetCity 311
3/23/202611338 S GREEN STMorgan Park21Completed2 daysPhone CallCity 311
3/30/20262614 W ESTES AVEWest Ridge50Completed2 daysPhone CallCity 311
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