RatCity — Chicago Rat and Rodent Sightings Map

RatCity

4403 locations in the last 30 days (4565 reports) · Last sighting 18 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
7/26/20265252 N LUDLAM AVEJefferson Park45Completed15 daysInternetCity 311
8/19/20268410 S PEORIA STAuburn Gresham17Completed15 daysPhone CallCity 311
8/19/202510403 S DRAKE AVEMount Greenwood19Completed15 daysInternetCity 311
8/24/202615 N LONG AVEAustin37Completed15 daysInternetCity 311
9/8/202611439 S MAY STMorgan Park21Completed15 daysInternetCity 311
9/8/2026634 W WEBSTER AVELincoln Park43Completed15 daysInternetCity 311
8/18/20252638 N WAYNE AVELincoln Park32Completed15 daysInternetCity 311
8/24/20264113 W DEVON AVEForest Glen39Completed15 daysPhone CallCity 311
8/16/2026852 W FULTON MARKETNear West Side27Completed15 daysInternetCity 311
8/24/20265252 N CALIFORNIA AVELincoln Square39Completed15 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
8/20/20255424 S LATROBE AVEGarfield Ridge23Completed15 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
8/24/20264025 N KEDVALE AVEIrving Park39Completed15 daysPhone CallCity 311
8/10/20266100 N NAPER AVENorwood Park45Completed15 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
8/10/20261967 N MAUD AVELincoln Park43Completed15 daysInternetCity 311
8/19/20262031 W CORTLAND STLogan Square32Completed15 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
8/19/20263502 W 71ST PLChicago Lawn17Completed15 daysPhone CallCity 311
8/11/2025700 N SAWYER AVEHumboldt Park27Completed15 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
8/10/20261845 W SUPERIOR STWest Town36Completed15 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
8/19/202510004 S OAKLEY AVEBeverly19Completed15 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
8/6/20255133 W PARKER AVEBelmont Cragin31Completed15 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
8/18/20261850 W NELSON STNorth Center32Completed15 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/6/20264630 N KENMORE AVEUptown46Completed15 daysInternetCity 311
9/8/20261125 W 115TH STWest Pullman21Completed15 daysInternetCity 311
8/31/20261711 W ROSCOE STLake View32Completed15 daysInternetCity 311
8/17/20267733 S SOUTH SHORE DRSouth Shore7Completed15 daysPhone CallCity 311
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