RatCity — Chicago Rat and Rodent Sightings Map

RatCity

4493 locations in the last 30 days (4679 reports) · Last sighting 9 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

58,468 reports match your filters.

DateAddressNeighborhoodWardStatusResponse timeReported viaSource
11/17/20256449 S NORMANDY AVEClearing13Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
11/17/20256455 S NORMANDY AVEClearing13Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
11/17/20256700 W 64TH PLClearing13Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
11/17/20254517 N PAULINA STUptown47Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
11/17/20253516 N OLEANDER AVEDunning38Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
11/17/20252546 W PENSACOLA AVENorth Center47Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
11/17/20252548 N SOUTHPORT AVELincoln Park32Completed2 daysPhone CallCity 311
11/17/20256033 W ROSCOE STDunning30Completed2 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
11/17/20251729 N MARSHFIELD AVEWest Town32Completed2 daysInternetCity 311
11/17/20252642 W SUPERIOR STWest Town36Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
11/17/20258400 S OGLESBY AVESouth Chicago8Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
11/17/20257904 S MICHIGAN AVEChatham6Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
11/17/20257544 S HOYNE AVEAuburn Gresham18Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
11/17/20258053 S LOOMIS STAuburn Gresham17Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
11/17/20252625 N WHIPPLE STLogan Square1Completed0 daysPhone CallCity 311
11/17/20257743 S WINCHESTER AVEAuburn Gresham17Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
11/17/20257315 S GREEN STEnglewood17Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
11/17/20256331 W HYACINTH STNorwood Park39Completed0 daysPhone CallCity 311
11/17/20251614 W WILSON AVEUptown47Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
11/17/20252902 N CENTRAL PARK AVEAvondale35Completed2 daysInternetCity 311
11/17/2025858 N ORLEANS STNear North Side2Completed2 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
11/17/20251531 N ROCKWELL STWest Town1Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
11/17/20254131 N FRANCISCO AVEIrving Park33Completed2 daysInternetCity 311
11/17/20251045 N LAWNDALE AVEHumboldt Park27Completed1 dayMobile DeviceCity 311
11/17/2025748 S KEDZIE AVEEast Garfield Park24Completed2 daysInternetCity 311
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