RatCity — Chicago Rat and Rodent Sightings Map

RatCity

4269 locations in the last 30 days (4451 reports) · Last sighting 22 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

58,530 reports match your filters.

DateAddressNeighborhoodWardStatusResponse timeReported viaSource
9/26/20258252 W IRVING PARK RDDunning38Completed3 daysPhone CallCity 311
10/17/20252451 W BELLE PLAINE AVENorth Center47Completed3 daysPhone CallCity 311
4/18/20261037 W 97TH PLWashington Heights21Completed3 daysPhone CallCity 311
5/8/20264849 S DAMEN AVENew City15Completed3 daysInternetCity 311
1/23/20264800 S WOOD STNew City15Completed3 daysPhone CallCity 311
6/5/20266645 S RICHMOND STChicago Lawn15Completed3 daysInternetCity 311
11/14/20253633 S WOOD STMcKinley Park12Completed3 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
4/20/20265271 N NORTHWEST HWYJefferson Park45Completed3 daysPhone CallCity 311
2/21/20263059 N LUNA AVEBelmont Cragin31Completed3 daysInternetCity 311
9/5/202510739 S ST LOUIS AVEMount Greenwood19Completed3 daysPhone CallCity 311
6/26/20265401 W CULLOM AVEPortage Park38Completed3 daysPhone CallCity 311
10/7/20256537 S JUSTINE STWest Englewood16Completed3 daysPhone CallCity 311
4/10/202643 W CHICAGO AVENear North Side42Completed3 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
5/1/20262105 W 95TH STBeverly19Completed3 daysInternetCity 311
5/8/20264241 N LARAMIE AVEPortage Park45Completed3 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
3/1/20262457 N RUTHERFORD AVEMontclare36Completed3 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/29/20263736 W 61ST STWest Lawn23Completed3 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
6/2/20262057 N SHEFFIELD AVELincoln Park43Completed3 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/26/20254842 W RACE AVEAustin37Completed3 daysPhone CallCity 311
11/7/20254630 N LAWLER AVEPortage Park45Completed3 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
1/23/20264401 S ARTESIAN AVEBrighton Park15Completed3 daysPhone CallCity 311
5/1/20264930 N KEELER AVEAlbany Park39Completed3 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
3/1/20263729 W GRAND AVEHumboldt Park36Completed3 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
6/5/202610742 S ST LOUIS AVEMount Greenwood19Completed3 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
6/15/20264511 W PARKER AVEHermosa31Completed3 daysInternetCity 311
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