RatCity — Chicago Rat and Rodent Sightings Map

RatCity

4439 locations in the last 30 days (4601 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

57,251 reports match your filters.

DateAddressNeighborhoodWardStatusResponse timeReported viaSource
1/11/20265356 N LINDER AVEJefferson Park45Completed2 daysInternetCity 311
4/14/20262029 N RACINE AVELincoln Park43Completed2 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
4/6/20268244 S BISHOP STAuburn Gresham17Completed2 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
5/5/20268418 S GILBERT CTAuburn Gresham21Completed2 daysPhone CallCity 311
3/2/2026837 W NORTH AVENear North Side2Completed2 daysInternetCity 311
5/9/20263037 W MONTROSE AVEIrving Park33Completed2 daysInternetCity 311
4/27/20265000 S LAFLIN STNew City20Completed2 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
4/28/20266477 S NORMANDY AVEClearing13Completed2 daysInternetCity 311
6/16/20266612 W 64TH PLClearing13Completed2 daysInternetCity 311
5/4/202611346 S CENTRAL PARK AVEMount Greenwood19Completed2 daysInternetCity 311
11/24/20258635 S HOUSTON AVESouth Chicago10Completed2 daysInternetCity 311
6/2/20261942 N MONTICELLO AVELogan Square26Completed2 daysInternetCity 311
5/31/2026219 E 45TH STGrand Boulevard3Completed2 daysInternetCity 311
10/20/20253222 N NEENAH AVEDunning38Completed2 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
7/20/20265542 S NASHVILLE AVEGarfield Ridge13Completed2 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
8/17/20265236 S WOODLAWN AVEHyde Park5Completed2 daysPhone CallCity 311
8/17/20265436 S KIMBARK AVEHyde Park5Completed2 daysPhone CallCity 311
11/11/20253902 N SPAULDING AVEIrving Park33Completed2 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
6/1/20263673 N ELSTON AVEIrving Park33Completed2 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
5/16/20262406 S MILLARD AVESouth Lawndale22Completed2 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
4/15/20261514 S KILBOURN AVENorth Lawndale24Completed2 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
3/4/20261016 W CULLERTON STLower West Side25Completed2 daysInternetCity 311
5/4/2026511 N BISHOP STWest Town1Completed2 daysPhone CallCity 311
6/16/20265007 W ADDISON STPortage Park31Completed2 daysInternetCity 311
5/13/20267014 W ARCHER AVEGarfield Ridge23Completed2 daysPhone CallCity 311
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