RatCity — Chicago Rat and Rodent Sightings Map

RatCity

4684 locations in the last 30 days (4843 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

53,761 reports match your filters.

DateAddressNeighborhoodWardStatusResponse timeReported viaSource
9/1/20258247 W IRVING PARK RDDunning38Completed14 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/9/20262445 W GRENSHAW STNear West Side28Completed14 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/9/20262449 W GRENSHAW STNear West Side28Completed14 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
7/23/20261333 W HOLLYWOOD AVEEdgewater48Completed14 daysInternetCity 311
7/28/20262181 N MENARD AVEBelmont Cragin36Completed14 daysInternetCity 311
8/19/20252127 W SUNNYSIDE AVELincoln Square47Completed14 daysInternetCity 311
7/27/20262829 W 25TH STSouth Lawndale24Completed14 daysInternetCity 311
9/3/20262015 W POTOMAC AVEWest Town1Completed14 daysPhone CallCity 311
7/28/20262616 W EVERGREEN AVEWest Town26Completed14 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
8/3/20263042 W NORTH AVEHumboldt Park26Completed14 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/14/20263750 W CORTLAND STLogan Square26Completed14 daysPhone CallCity 311
8/21/20255558 W EDMUNDS STJefferson Park45Completed14 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
8/20/20261648 W NELSON STLake View32Completed14 daysInternetCity 311
8/20/20251713 W PIERCE AVEWest Town1Completed14 daysInternetCity 311
8/31/20268019 S MARSHFIELD AVEAuburn Gresham17Completed14 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
8/19/20255111 W HENDERSON STPortage Park31Completed14 daysInternetCity 311
8/26/20262722 S QUINN STBridgeport11Completed14 daysPhone CallCity 311
8/4/20255214 W PARKER AVEBelmont Cragin31Completed14 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
8/21/20253043 W BELLE PLAINE AVEIrving Park33Completed14 daysInternetCity 311
7/14/20261653 W 45TH STNew City15Completed14 daysPhone CallCity 311
8/26/2025740 E 92ND PLChatham8Completed14 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/10/20266458 N CAMPBELL AVEWest Ridge50Completed14 daysInternetCity 311
7/31/20264957 W FOSTER AVEForest Glen45Completed14 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
8/19/2025628 W WEBSTER AVELincoln Park43Completed14 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
8/12/20262332 N MELVINA AVEBelmont Cragin36Completed14 daysPhone CallCity 311
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