RatCity — Chicago Rat and Rodent Sightings Map

RatCity

4153 locations in the last 30 days (4298 reports) · Last sighting 3 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
9/3/20256928 S GREEN STEnglewood16Completed12 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
6/7/20266636 S MAY STEnglewood16Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
10/17/20251601 W 59TH STWest Englewood16Completed6 daysPhone CallCity 311
7/15/20266134 S CAMPBELL AVEChicago Lawn16Completed6 daysPhone CallCity 311
6/1/20262626 W 63RD STChicago Lawn16Completed2 daysPhone CallCity 311
2/17/20261900 W 63RD STWest Englewood16Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
5/12/20266945 S MAY STEnglewood16Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
5/11/20266308 S HALSTED STEnglewood16Completed2 daysPhone CallCity 311
5/11/20265355 S WOOD STNew City16Completed2 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/3/20256609 S PAULINA STWest Englewood16Completed12 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
5/11/20266828 S CAMPBELL AVEChicago Lawn16Completed2 daysPhone CallCity 311
5/11/20266457 S HOYNE AVEWest Englewood16Completed2 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
5/8/20262400 W 59TH STGage Park16Completed5 daysPhone CallCity 311
5/8/20266440 S JUSTINE STWest Englewood16Completed5 daysPhone CallCity 311
5/7/20265919 S ELIZABETH STWest Englewood16Completed6 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
1/20/20266200 S BISHOP STWest Englewood16Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
1/20/20266342 S ELIZABETH STWest Englewood16Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
5/7/20265732 S GREEN STEnglewood16Completed6 daysPhone CallCity 311
1/20/20266921 S RACINE AVEEnglewood16Completed1 dayMobile DeviceCity 311
2/17/20265500 S DAMEN AVEWest Englewood16Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
2/17/20265500 S WINCHESTER AVEWest Englewood16Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
2/17/20265500 S WOLCOTT AVEWest Englewood16Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
6/15/20266501 S BELL AVEChicago Lawn16Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
5/7/20266353 S WASHTENAW AVEChicago Lawn16Completed6 daysInternetCity 311
10/17/20251900 W 63RD STWest Englewood16Completed6 daysPhone CallCity 311
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