RatCity — Chicago Rat and Rodent Sightings Map

RatCity

4429 locations in the last 30 days (4590 reports) · Last sighting 14 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
8/10/20264304 N CAMPBELL AVENorth Center47Completed15 daysPhone CallCity 311
8/10/20253838 N HAMILTON AVENorth Center47Completed11 daysInternetCity 311
7/17/20261448 W ROSCOE STLake View47Completed12 daysInternetCity 311
8/12/20253436 N LINCOLN AVELake View47Completed9 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
7/27/20263650 N PAULINA STLake View47Completed11 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
8/2/20252335 W GIDDINGS STLincoln Square47Completed12 daysInternetCity 311
5/4/20262429 W CUYLER AVENorth Center47Completed3 daysPhone CallCity 311
8/3/20252014 W PENSACOLA AVENorth Center47Completed11 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
6/11/20261742 W ROSCOE STLake View47Completed6 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/21/20261798 W LAWRENCE AVELincoln Square47Open—InternetCity 311
3/19/20263616 N SEELEY AVENorth Center47Completed1 dayMobile DeviceCity 311
8/3/20253647 N MARSHFIELD AVELake View47Completed11 daysInternetCity 311
1/18/20263422 N LINCOLN AVELake View47Completed2 daysInternetCity 311
8/8/20253937 N HAMILTON AVENorth Center47Completed13 daysInternetCity 311
1/16/20262125 W CUYLER AVENorth Center47Completed4 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/21/20262454 W BRADLEY PLNorth Center47Open—Phone CallCity 311
8/16/20251416 W CUYLER AVELake View47Completed11 daysInternetCity 311
8/5/20264654 N DAMEN AVELincoln Square47Completed15 daysPhone CallCity 311
8/7/20253654 N PAULINA STLake View47Completed14 daysPhone CallCity 311
1/16/20262445 W CUYLER AVENorth Center47Completed4 daysPhone CallCity 311
8/7/20251935 W GRACE STNorth Center47Completed14 daysInternetCity 311
1/17/20264024 N LINCOLN AVENorth Center47Completed3 daysInternetCity 311
3/18/20264820 N HERMITAGE AVEUptown47Completed1 dayMobile DeviceCity 311
8/12/20251502 W WILSON AVEUptown47Completed9 daysInternetCity 311
6/12/20264423 N GREENVIEW AVEUptown47Completed5 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
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