RatCity — Chicago Rat and Rodent Sightings Map

RatCity

4447 locations in the last 30 days (4610 reports) · Last sighting 12 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

53,341 reports match your filters.

DateAddressNeighborhoodWardStatusResponse timeReported viaSource
9/18/20258101 W HIGGINS RDNorwood Park—Completed12 daysPhone CallCity 311
10/7/20258101 W HIGGINS RDNorwood Park—Completed8 daysInternetCity 311
9/7/20268101 S MARSHFIELD AVEAuburn Gresham17Completed7 daysInternetCity 311
4/26/20268101 S MARSHFIELD AVEAuburn Gresham17Completed3 daysInternetCity 311
6/17/20268101 S KEATING AVEAshburn18Completed1 dayMobile DeviceCity 311
1/12/20268101 S KEATING AVEAshburn18Completed1 dayMobile DeviceCity 311
6/5/20268101 S HONORE STAuburn Gresham17Completed5 daysPhone CallCity 311
6/3/20268101 S EBERHART AVEChatham6Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
5/13/20268100 S THROOP STAuburn Gresham17Completed2 daysPhone CallCity 311
10/31/20258100 S PRAIRIE AVEChatham6Completed3 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/8/20258100 S MERRILL AVESouth Chicago8Completed7 daysPhone CallCity 311
1/10/20268100 S LAFAYETTE AVEChatham6Completed2 daysInternetCity 311
8/13/20268100 S KING M L JR DRChatham6Completed11 daysPhone CallCity 311
12/22/20258100 S HERMITAGE AVEAuburn Gresham17Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
6/2/20268100 S HERMITAGE AVEAuburn Gresham17Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
3/31/20268100 S CHRISTIANA AVEAshburn18Completed1 dayAlderman's OfficeCity 311
7/18/2026809 W LAWRENCE AVEUptown46Completed9 daysPhone CallCity 311
6/29/2026809 W GEORGE STLake View44Completed7 daysInternetCity 311
5/9/2026809 W BRADLEY PLLake View46Completed3 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
12/18/2025809 W BRADLEY PLLake View46Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
1/6/2026809 N RACINE AVEWest Town27Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
8/4/2025808 N LAKE SHORE DRNear North Side2Completed9 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
10/25/2025807 W CORNELIA AVELake View44Completed5 daysInternetCity 311
2/19/2026807 W BUCKINGHAM PLLake View44Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
9/21/2026807 N WABASH AVENear North Side42Completed2 daysInternetCity 311
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