RatCity — Chicago Rat and Rodent Sightings Map

RatCity

4386 locations in the last 30 days (4551 reports) · Last sighting 15 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

57,594 reports match your filters.

DateAddressNeighborhoodWardStatusResponse timeReported viaSource
5/3/20265337 S MOODY AVEGarfield Ridge23Completed3 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
5/26/20267316 S CARPENTER STEnglewood17Completed3 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
6/12/20261839 N FREMONT STLincoln Park43Completed3 daysInternetCity 311
6/8/20262042 N LINCOLN PARK WESTLincoln Park43Completed3 daysInternetCity 311
6/5/20261301 N STATE PKWYNear North Side43Completed3 daysInternetCity 311
5/10/20261646 W JULIAN STWest Town1Completed3 daysInternetCity 311
5/18/20265616 S NARRAGANSETT AVEGarfield Ridge13Completed3 daysInternetCity 311
6/2/20261618 N WHIPPLE STHumboldt Park26Completed3 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
5/31/20261958 W 83RD STAuburn Gresham17Completed3 daysPhone CallCity 311
3/9/20262026 N CLEVELAND AVELincoln Park43Completed3 daysPhone CallCity 311
8/2/20256320 N PAULINA STEdgewater40Completed3 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
4/3/2026935 N DAMEN AVEWest Town36Completed3 daysInternetCity 311
6/2/20261503 W 19TH STLower West Side25Completed3 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
4/26/20266228 W BALMORAL AVEJefferson Park45Completed3 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
4/26/20266214 W BALMORAL AVEJefferson Park45Completed3 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
5/2/2026962 W MONTANA STLincoln Park43Completed3 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
8/2/20256316 N PAULINA STEdgewater40Completed3 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
7/12/20262925 N OAK PARK AVEMontclare36Completed3 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
4/10/20262519 N OAK PARK AVEMontclare36Completed3 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
4/25/20262220 S KIRKLAND AVENorth Lawndale22Completed3 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
4/13/20261624 N CENTRAL PARK AVEHumboldt Park26Completed3 daysInternetCity 311
3/20/20265544 S NEWLAND AVEGarfield Ridge13Completed3 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
6/2/20261616 N HUMBOLDT BLVDHumboldt Park26Completed3 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
11/21/20256612 N HARLEM AVEEdison Park41Completed3 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
4/19/20265007 N KILBOURN AVEAlbany Park39Completed3 daysPhone CallCity 311
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