RatCity — Chicago Rat and Rodent Sightings Map

RatCity

4513 locations in the last 30 days (4677 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

53,243 reports match your filters.

DateAddressNeighborhoodWardStatusResponse timeReported viaSource
6/2/20262111 W 50TH PLNew City15Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
11/18/20251647 N MEADE AVEAustin29Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
12/3/20253625 N NEVA AVEDunning38Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
2/23/20265121 S LOOMIS STNew City20Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
1/6/20261125 W 31ST STBridgeport11Completed1 dayMobile DeviceCity 311
12/10/20251520 E 67TH PLSouth Shore5Completed1 dayMobile DeviceCity 311
3/25/20261915 N WHIPPLE STLogan Square26Completed1 dayMobile DeviceCity 311
7/8/20263642 N CHRISTIANA AVEIrving Park35Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
5/28/20266420 N WAYNE AVERogers Park49Completed1 dayMobile DeviceCity 311
3/30/20263054 S BROAD STBridgeport11Completed1 dayMobile DeviceCity 311
1/29/20261601 E 55TH STHyde Park5Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
1/5/2026617 N LONG AVEAustin37Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
4/12/20262011 W BYRON STNorth Center47Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
11/18/20254742 S SPRINGFIELD AVEArcher Heights14Completed1 dayAlderman's OfficeCity 311
5/10/20263673 N ELSTON AVEIrving Park33Completed1 dayMobile DeviceCity 311
12/9/20256116 N MEADE AVENorwood Park39Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
6/15/202610510 S HOMAN AVEMount Greenwood19Completed1 dayMobile DeviceCity 311
1/5/20263739 N ORIOLE AVEDunning38Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
11/25/20252918 W LEXINGTON STEast Garfield Park28Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
3/16/20261451 W 17TH STLower West Side25Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
1/21/20261520 S WABASH AVENear South Side3Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
2/11/20265934 N HERMITAGE AVEEdgewater40Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
10/19/2025207 W HARRISON STLoop34Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
11/24/20252544 N KILDARE AVEHermosa31Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
4/29/20264917 W GUNNISON STForest Glen45Completed1 dayMobile DeviceCity 311
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