RatCity — Chicago Rat and Rodent Sightings Map

RatCity

4424 locations in the last 30 days (4588 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

53,243 reports match your filters.

DateAddressNeighborhoodWardStatusResponse timeReported viaSource
12/16/20251112 S WHIPPLE STNorth Lawndale28Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
9/6/20251112 W 104TH STWashington Heights21Completed12 daysInternetCity 311
8/15/20251112 W 115TH STMorgan Park21Completed14 daysInternetCity 311
8/18/20251112 W 17TH STLower West Side25Completed9 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
5/23/20261112 W 19TH PLLower West Side25Completed3 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/11/20251112 W COLUMBIA AVERogers Park49Completed12 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
11/9/20251112 W CULLERTON STLower West Side25Completed3 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
8/22/20251112 W FRY STWest Town27Completed13 daysPhone CallCity 311
7/25/20251112 W MONTANA STLincoln Park43Completed10 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
7/11/20261112 W TAYLOR STNear West Side34Completed2 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
7/23/202611130 S SAWYER AVEMount Greenwood19Completed5 daysInternetCity 311
9/16/202611131 S DRAKE AVEMount Greenwood19Open—InternetCity 311
7/29/202511132 S AVENUE CEast Side10Completed8 daysPhone CallCity 311
7/7/202611132 S ST LOUIS AVEMount Greenwood19Completed0 daysPhone CallCity 311
8/11/202611132 S ST LOUIS AVEMount Greenwood19Completed3 daysPhone CallCity 311
4/10/202611132 S WALLACE STRoseland21Completed3 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/9/202511133 S ASHLAND AVEMorgan Park21Completed9 daysPhone CallCity 311
12/23/202511133 S PEORIA STMorgan Park21Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
12/29/202511133 S PEORIA STMorgan Park21Completed0 daysPhone CallCity 311
8/10/202611134 S EEast Side10Completed17 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
5/10/202611136 S SPAULDING AVEMount Greenwood19Completed2 daysInternetCity 311
7/20/202611136 S TRUMBULL AVEMount Greenwood19Completed4 daysPhone CallCity 311
7/23/202611138 S EMERALD AVERoseland21Completed5 daysPhone CallCity 311
7/23/202611138 S EMERALD AVERoseland21Completed5 daysPhone CallCity 311
7/23/202611138 S EMERALD AVERoseland21Completed5 daysPhone CallCity 311
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