RatCity — Chicago Rat and Rodent Sightings Map

RatCity

4330 locations in the last 30 days (4489 reports) · Last sighting 2 days 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

52,482 reports match your filters.

DateAddressNeighborhoodWardStatusResponse timeReported viaSource
10/22/20259630 S SANGAMON STWashington Heights21Completed6 daysPhone CallCity 311
1/12/20269630 S HALSTED STWashington Heights21Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
9/6/20269630 S EWING AVEEast Side10Completed11 daysInternetCity 311
9/30/20259630 S CLAREMONT AVEBeverly19Completed7 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
6/5/2026962 W MONTANA STLincoln Park43Completed3 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
5/2/2026962 W MONTANA STLincoln Park43Completed3 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
8/24/2026962 W MONTANA STLincoln Park43Completed10 daysInternetCity 311
9/12/20259629 S MUSKEGON AVESouth Deering10Completed4 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
6/11/20269628 S PRAIRIE AVERoseland9Completed5 daysInternetCity 311
11/27/20259628 S PERRY AVERoseland9Completed5 daysInternetCity 311
8/4/20269626 S VAN VLISSINGEN RDSouth Deering7Completed15 daysPhone CallCity 311
8/14/20259626 S HOXIE AVESouth Deering7Completed8 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
9/6/20269626 S EWING AVEEast Side10Completed11 daysInternetCity 311
9/16/20259624 S MUSKEGON AVESouth Deering10Completed0 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
3/3/20269624 S EWING AVEEast Side10Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
9/6/20269624 S EWING AVEEast Side10Completed11 daysInternetCity 311
9/22/20259622 S LA SALLE STRoseland9Completed4 daysPhone CallCity 311
5/15/20269622 S GREEN STWashington Heights21Completed5 daysInternetCity 311
1/7/20269622 S AVALON AVEPullman8Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
8/1/20259620 S MUSKEGON AVESouth Deering10Completed5 daysWalk-inCity 311
10/1/20259619 S YALE AVERoseland9Completed9 daysInternetCity 311
9/29/20259618 S WENTWORTH AVERoseland9Completed8 daysPhone CallCity 311
7/21/20269618 S WENTWORTH AVERoseland9Completed14 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/30/20259618 S WENTWORTH AVERoseland9Completed7 daysPhone CallCity 311
8/15/20259618 S MEast Side10Completed4 daysInternetCity 311
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