RatCity — Chicago Rat and Rodent Sightings Map

RatCity

4640 locations in the last 30 days (4812 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

52,821 reports match your filters.

DateAddressNeighborhoodWardStatusResponse timeReported viaSource
9/22/20261525 W EDGEWATER AVEEdgewater48Open—Mobile DeviceCity 311
9/22/20263434 S LOWE AVEBridgeport11Open—Alderman's OfficeCity 311
9/22/20261255 W 51ST STNew City20Open—Phone CallCity 311
9/22/20261255 W 51ST STNew City20Open—Phone CallCity 311
9/22/2026614 W 43RD STNew City11Open—InternetCity 311
9/22/20262517 S CENTRAL PARK AVESouth Lawndale22Open—Phone CallCity 311
9/22/20264608 N MONTICELLO AVEAlbany Park33Open—Phone CallCity 311
9/22/20264141 N LONG AVEPortage Park38Open—Phone CallCity 311
9/22/20261959 W CULLOM AVENorth Center47Open—Phone CallCity 311
9/22/20264253 N DAMEN AVENorth Center47Open—Phone CallCity 311
9/22/20261036 W 69TH STEnglewood16Open—Alderman's OfficeCity 311
9/22/20265715 S MOODY AVEGarfield Ridge13Open—InternetCity 311
9/22/20266642 N CLARK STRogers Park49Open—InternetCity 311
9/22/20261842 W 83RD STAuburn Gresham17Open—Alderman's OfficeCity 311
9/22/20262144 W ARTHURWest Ridge50Open—Salesforce Mobile AppCity 311
9/22/20265653 W GUNNISON STPortage Park45Open—InternetCity 311
9/22/20266149 N BROADWAYEdgewater48Open—InternetCity 311
9/22/20262115 W MORSE AVEWest Ridge40Open—Mobile DeviceCity 311
9/22/20264201 S MICHIGAN AVEGrand Boulevard3Open—Phone CallCity 311
9/22/20265715 N OTTAWA AVENorwood Park41Open—Phone CallCity 311
9/22/20264839 W HIRSCH STAustin37Open—Alderman's OfficeCity 311
9/22/20262724 W WINNEMAC AVELincoln Square40Open—Alderman's OfficeCity 311
9/22/20262729 W CARMEN AVELincoln Square40Completed1 dayAlderman's OfficeCity 311
9/22/20265615 W PATTERSON AVEPortage Park38Open—Mobile DeviceCity 311
9/22/20262940 N MONITOR AVEBelmont Cragin30Open—InternetCity 311
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