RatCity — Chicago Rat and Rodent Sightings Map

RatCity

4437 locations in the last 30 days (4594 reports) · Last sighting 2 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

57,080 reports match your filters.

DateAddressNeighborhoodWardStatusResponse timeReported viaSource
11/12/20254860 W EDDY STPortage Park31Completed2 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
7/31/20255200 W WARWICK AVEPortage Park30Completed13 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
9/8/20255004 W BYRON STPortage Park45Completed10 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
10/28/20255258 W AGATITE AVEPortage Park45Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
11/13/20255630 W CORNELIA AVEPortage Park30Completed0 daysPhone CallCity 311
3/5/20265507 W CULLOM AVEPortage Park38Completed0 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/18/20254359 N CICERO AVEPortage Park45Completed8 daysPhone CallCity 311
8/31/20265128 W WARWICK AVEPortage Park30Completed11 daysInternetCity 311
10/14/20264908 W ROSCOE STPortage Park31Open—Mobile DeviceCity 311
10/28/20255134 W HENDERSON STPortage Park31Completed3 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
11/13/20255239 W ROSCOE STPortage Park31Completed1 dayMobile DeviceCity 311
10/14/20264900 W ROSCOE STPortage Park31Open—Mobile DeviceCity 311
10/14/20264904 W ROSCOE STPortage Park31Open—Mobile DeviceCity 311
10/14/20264438 N CICERO AVEPortage Park45Open—Mobile DeviceCity 311
11/13/20255000 W WAVELAND AVEPortage Park30Completed1 dayAlderman's OfficeCity 311
3/5/20264653 N MAJOR AVEPortage Park45Completed1 dayMobile DeviceCity 311
9/9/20255018 W BYRON STPortage Park45Completed9 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
11/13/20255100 W WAVELAND AVEPortage Park30Completed1 dayAlderman's OfficeCity 311
4/8/20265500 W WARWICK AVEPortage Park30Completed1 dayAlderman's OfficeCity 311
11/13/20255200 W WAVELAND AVEPortage Park30Completed1 dayAlderman's OfficeCity 311
10/27/20254047 N MOODY AVEPortage Park38Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
11/13/20255200 W WARWICK AVEPortage Park30Completed1 dayAlderman's OfficeCity 311
10/14/20264822 W NEWPORT AVEPortage Park31Open—Mobile DeviceCity 311
11/13/20255100 W WARWICK AVEPortage Park30Completed1 dayAlderman's OfficeCity 311
4/8/20265500 W WAVELAND AVEPortage Park30Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
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