RatCity — Chicago Rat and Rodent Sightings Map

RatCity

4380 locations in the last 30 days (4541 reports) · Last sighting yesterday

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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
5/6/202611312 S VINCENNES AVEMorgan Park19Completed2 daysPhone CallCity 311
7/4/202611313 S DRAKE AVEMount Greenwood19Completed2 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/7/202611315 S TRUMBULL AVEMount Greenwood19Completed9 daysInternetCity 311
9/6/202611315 S TRUMBULL AVEMount Greenwood19Completed10 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
10/20/202511316 S DR MARTIN LUTHER KING JR DRRoseland9Completed4 daysInternetCity 311
9/21/202611317 S SAWYER AVEMount Greenwood19Open—Mobile DeviceCity 311
6/11/202611317 S SAWYER AVEMount Greenwood19Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
7/30/202611318 S STEWART AVERoseland21Completed6 daysPhone CallCity 311
8/14/202611318 S WALLACE STRoseland21Completed3 daysPhone CallCity 311
8/26/202611319 S MILLARD AVEMount Greenwood19Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
7/14/202611319 S MILLARD AVEMount Greenwood19Completed7 daysInternetCity 311
9/7/202611319 S WALLACE STRoseland21Completed11 daysInternetCity 311
9/25/20261131 N DAMEN AVEWest Town1Open—Phone CallCity 311
6/17/20261131 N HARDING AVEHumboldt Park37Completed6 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
7/13/20261131 N MOZART STWest Town26Completed7 daysInternetCity 311
9/19/20251131 S COLUMBUS DRLoop4Completed12 daysInternetCity 311
8/27/20261131 W DRUMMOND PLLincoln Park43Completed12 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
2/22/202611320 S DRAKE AVEMount Greenwood19Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
9/8/202511320 S STEWART AVERoseland21Completed10 daysPhone CallCity 311
8/21/202611321 S CENTRAL PARK AVEMount Greenwood19Completed5 daysInternetCity 311
8/1/202511321 S WASHTENAW AVEMorgan Park19Completed12 daysInternetCity 311
6/11/202611321 S WASHTENAW AVEMorgan Park19Completed1 dayMobile DeviceCity 311
10/1/202511322 S YALE AVERoseland9Completed9 daysPhone CallCity 311
11/20/202511323 S INDIANA AVERoseland9Completed4 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
5/13/202611324 S CHURCH STMorgan Park19Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
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