RatCity — Chicago Rat and Rodent Sightings Map

RatCity

4428 locations in the last 30 days (4589 reports) · Last sighting 15 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
8/11/20268042 S KILPATRICK AVEAshburn18Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
9/18/20258042 S KILPATRICK AVEAshburn18Completed5 daysPhone CallCity 311
5/15/20268041 S STEWART AVEChatham6Completed5 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/5/20258041 S STEWART AVEChatham6Completed13 daysPhone CallCity 311
11/20/20258040 S EMERALD AVEAuburn Gresham6Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
8/18/20258040 S EMERALD AVEAuburn Gresham6Completed8 daysInternetCity 311
5/5/20268039 S WHIPPLE STAshburn18Completed3 daysInternetCity 311
10/27/20258039 S PRINCETON AVEChatham17Completed7 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
12/10/20258038 S ELLIS AVEChatham8Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
5/13/20268037 S THROOP STAuburn Gresham17Completed2 daysPhone CallCity 311
10/22/20258037 S MARYLAND AVEChatham8Completed2 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/11/20268037 S GREEN STAuburn Gresham17Completed12 daysPhone CallCity 311
6/29/20268036 S GREEN STAuburn Gresham17Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
11/25/20258036 S GREEN STAuburn Gresham17Completed3 daysInternetCity 311
6/26/20268036 S EBERHART AVEChatham6Completed4 daysInternetCity 311
5/28/20268035 S SAGINAW AVESouth Chicago7Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
11/18/20258035 S SAGINAW AVESouth Chicago7Completed0 daysPhone CallCity 311
6/16/20268035 S PHILLIPS AVESouth Chicago7Completed2 daysInternetCity 311
1/7/20268035 S PAULINA STAuburn Gresham17Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
9/2/20258034 S ST LOUIS AVEAshburn18Completed9 daysPhone CallCity 311
6/25/20268034 S LAFLIN STAuburn Gresham17Completed5 daysPhone CallCity 311
5/18/20268033 S SAWYER AVEAshburn18Completed2 daysPhone CallCity 311
4/27/20268033 S SAWYER AVEAshburn18Completed3 daysPhone CallCity 311
12/1/20258032 S SAGINAW AVESouth Chicago7Completed2 daysPhone CallCity 311
10/26/20258031 S ELIZABETH STAuburn Gresham17Completed2 daysPhone CallCity 311
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