RatCity — Chicago Rat and Rodent Sightings Map

RatCity

4440 locations in the last 30 days (4599 reports) · Last sighting 22 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

57,079 reports match your filters.

DateAddressNeighborhoodWardStatusResponse timeReported viaSource
3/21/20261942 W ARMITAGE AVELogan Square32Completed2 daysInternetCity 311
4/28/20262257 N LONG AVEBelmont Cragin36Completed2 daysInternetCity 311
6/3/20265948 N SHERIDAN RDEdgewater48Completed2 daysInternetCity 311
4/14/20261535 W 61ST STWest Englewood16Completed2 daysPhone CallCity 311
6/30/2026815 N KILDARE AVEHumboldt Park37Completed2 daysPhone CallCity 311
6/6/20266622 S HONORE STWest Englewood16Completed2 daysInternetCity 311
4/29/20264587 N MOODY AVEPortage Park38Completed2 daysPhone CallCity 311
4/14/20266330 W HYACINTH STNorwood Park39Completed2 daysInternetCity 311
5/12/20266127 N FRANCISCO AVEWest Ridge50Completed2 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
6/3/20266927 S ADA STWest Englewood17Completed2 daysPhone CallCity 311
11/2/20253031 S ARCHER AVEBridgeport11Completed2 daysPhone CallCity 311
6/28/20264345 S HERMITAGE AVENew City15Completed2 daysInternetCity 311
4/28/20265918 W THORNDALE AVEJefferson Park45Completed2 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
3/4/20264236 S MAPLEWOOD AVEBrighton Park12Completed2 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
3/1/20262857 N DAMEN AVENorth Center32Completed2 daysInternetCity 311
6/3/20261246 W 50TH STNew City20Completed2 daysInternetCity 311
4/26/20261168 N LA SALLE DRNear North Side27Completed2 daysInternetCity 311
3/11/20261633 E 67TH STSouth Shore5Completed2 daysPhone CallCity 311
5/17/20265250 N ROCKWELL STLincoln Square40Completed2 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
4/28/20261752 N MONITOR AVEAustin29Completed2 daysInternetCity 311
4/4/20265900 S MAYFIELD AVEClearing13Completed2 daysInternetCity 311
5/4/20261717 N NARRAGANSETT AVEAustin29Completed2 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
12/13/20251724 N WINNEBAGO AVEWest Town32Completed2 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
11/10/20256425 S LA CROSSE AVEClearing13Completed2 daysInternetCity 311
11/24/202510011 S WENTWORTH AVERoseland9Completed2 daysPhone CallCity 311
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