RatCity — Chicago Rat and Rodent Sightings Map

RatCity

4214 locations in the last 30 days (4370 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

56,389 reports match your filters.

DateAddressNeighborhoodWardStatusResponse timeReported viaSource
6/13/20263543 W BELMONT AVEAvondale35Completed2 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
2/21/20263108 N OLCOTT AVEDunning29Completed2 daysPhone CallCity 311
6/30/20265317 N NEW ENGLAND AVENorwood Park41Completed2 daysPhone CallCity 311
11/17/202510314 S CALUMET AVERoseland9Completed2 daysPhone CallCity 311
6/27/20261716 N LARAMIE AVEAustin37Completed2 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
3/9/20262739 W SEIPP STAshburn18Completed2 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/21/20262702 S PRINCETON AVEArmour Square11Completed2 daysPhone CallCity 311
6/28/20263941 W 64TH STWest Lawn23Completed2 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
11/4/20256142 N HAMILTON AVEWest Ridge40Completed2 daysInternetCity 311
5/24/20262037 W BIRCHWOOD AVERogers Park49Completed2 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
4/1/20263600 S EMERALD AVEBridgeport11Completed2 daysPhone CallCity 311
6/2/2026859 N HERMITAGE AVEWest Town1Completed2 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
10/27/20251716 N LAWNDALE AVEHumboldt Park26Completed2 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
3/31/20266500S S RACINE AVEWest Englewood17Completed2 daysPhone CallCity 311
3/7/20261926 S RACINE AVELower West Side25Completed2 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
5/4/20262942 N WISNER AVEAvondale35Completed2 daysInternetCity 311
11/3/20254803 S WABASH AVEGrand Boulevard3Completed2 daysPhone CallCity 311
5/4/20262905 N MILWAUKEE AVEAvondale35Completed2 daysInternetCity 311
5/4/20262881 N MILWAUKEE AVEAvondale35Completed2 daysInternetCity 311
5/4/20262885 N MILWAUKEE AVEAvondale35Completed2 daysInternetCity 311
2/18/20266035 W SCHOOL STDunning30Completed2 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
10/28/202524 W ERIE STNear North Side42Completed2 daysInternetCity 311
11/24/20255042 N WINCHESTER AVELincoln Square40Completed2 daysInternetCity 311
11/17/20254509 N LAPORTE AVEPortage Park45Completed2 daysPhone CallCity 311
4/14/20266353 W HYACINTH STNorwood Park39Completed2 daysPhone CallCity 311
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