RatCity — Chicago Rat and Rodent Sightings Map

RatCity

4424 locations in the last 30 days (4585 reports) · Last sighting 23 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

56,907 reports match your filters.

DateAddressNeighborhoodWardStatusResponse timeReported viaSource
9/28/20267234 S SANGAMON STEnglewood17Completed11 daysPhone CallCity 311
8/7/20266952 S BELL AVEChicago Lawn17Completed7 daysPhone CallCity 311
8/7/20266948 S BELL AVEChicago Lawn17Completed7 daysPhone CallCity 311
8/7/20266952 S TALMAN AVEChicago Lawn17Completed7 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/15/20261501 W 72ND PLWest Englewood17Completed13 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
8/7/20267949 S THROOP STAuburn Gresham17Completed7 daysPhone CallCity 311
8/18/20268044 S MAY STAuburn Gresham17Completed10 daysPhone CallCity 311
7/30/20251230 W 72ND PLWest Englewood17Completed9 daysPhone CallCity 311
8/18/20268506 S MORGAN STAuburn Gresham17Completed10 daysPhone CallCity 311
8/7/20267948 S ELIZABETH STAuburn Gresham17Completed7 daysPhone CallCity 311
8/18/20267642 S MORGAN STAuburn Gresham17Completed10 daysInternetCity 311
9/28/20261120 W 76TH STAuburn Gresham17Completed11 daysInternetCity 311
8/27/20267616 S MARSHFIELD AVEAuburn Gresham17Completed8 daysPhone CallCity 311
7/27/20263511 W 72ND STChicago Lawn17Completed8 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
7/30/20256848 S THROOP STWest Englewood17Completed9 daysInternetCity 311
7/27/20256847 S LOOMIS BLVDWest Englewood17Completed12 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
7/30/20256849 S ADA STWest Englewood17Completed9 daysInternetCity 311
7/31/20256927 S ADA STWest Englewood17Completed8 daysPhone CallCity 311
8/3/20268410 S PEORIA STAuburn Gresham17Completed9 daysPhone CallCity 311
7/27/20266700 S ELIZABETH STWest Englewood17Completed9 daysPhone CallCity 311
7/27/20266814 S PAULINA STWest Englewood17Completed9 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
8/20/20267816 S EMERALD AVEAuburn Gresham17Completed13 daysInternetCity 311
9/22/20261842 W 83RD STAuburn Gresham17Completed13 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
8/19/20262054 W 70TH STWest Englewood17Completed9 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
10/10/20267035 S FAIRFIELD AVEChicago Lawn17Completed9 daysInternetCity 311
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