RatCity — Chicago Rat and Rodent Sightings Map

RatCity

4427 locations in the last 30 days (4592 reports) · Last sighting 20 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

56,705 reports match your filters.

DateAddressNeighborhoodWardStatusResponse timeReported viaSource
10/6/20257130 S CYRIL AVESouth Shore5Completed2 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
12/20/20251944 W BELLE PLAINE AVENorth Center47Completed2 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
11/3/20252222 N RACINE AVELincoln Park2Completed2 daysInternetCity 311
4/6/20266140 N WINTHROP AVEEdgewater48Completed2 daysInternetCity 311
3/11/20262312 W CHICAGO AVEWest Town36Completed2 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
4/13/20261708 N TROY STHumboldt Park26Completed2 daysInternetCity 311
3/11/20261434 N HARDING AVEHumboldt Park26Completed2 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
3/17/202610018 S STATE STRoseland9Completed2 daysInternetCity 311
4/15/20265141 S MENARD AVEGarfield Ridge23Completed2 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
10/5/20258410 S BURLEY AVESouth Chicago10Completed2 daysPhone CallCity 311
5/19/20262508 W BIRCHWOODWest Ridge50Completed2 daysSalesforce Mobile AppCity 311
5/3/2026638 W WEBSTER AVELincoln Park43Completed2 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
7/5/20264840 N SHERIDAN RDUptown46Completed2 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
5/18/20261352 N RIDGEWAY AVEHumboldt Park36Completed2 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
3/9/20263702 W GEORGE STAvondale35Completed2 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/23/20262454 S SPRINGFIELD AVESouth Lawndale22Completed2 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
6/7/20265251 S LINDER AVEGarfield Ridge23Completed2 daysInternetCity 311
3/4/20267726 S HERMITAGE AVEAuburn Gresham17Completed2 daysPhone CallCity 311
3/29/20261034 W OAKDALE AVELake View44Completed2 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
3/25/20262649 S RIDGEWAY AVESouth Lawndale22Completed2 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
6/22/2026814 N ROCKWELL STWest Town36Completed2 daysPhone CallCity 311
11/24/20254744 S FORRESTVILLE AVEGrand Boulevard3Completed2 daysInternetCity 311
2/23/20267040 S EMERALD AVEEnglewood6Completed2 daysInternetCity 311
3/14/20265664 W GUNNISON STJefferson Park45Completed2 daysPhone CallCity 311
2/17/20266237 W 63RD STClearing13Completed2 daysPhone CallCity 311
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