RatCity — Chicago Rat and Rodent Sightings Map

RatCity

4556 locations in the last 30 days (4711 reports) · Last sighting yesterday

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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
8/21/20269232 S CLAREMONT AVEBeverly19Completed13 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
8/5/20257734 N EASTLAKE TERRogers Park49Completed13 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/1/202610 E CHICAGO AVENear North Side42Completed13 daysInternetCity 311
8/21/2025802 N MOZART STWest Town36Completed13 daysInternetCity 311
7/21/20255408 S MILLARD AVEWest Elsdon23Completed13 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/3/20264853 N HOYNE AVELincoln Square47Completed13 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
8/11/20262221 W CHARLESTON STLogan Square32Completed13 daysInternetCity 311
9/4/20266210 N TRIPP AVEForest Glen39Completed13 daysInternetCity 311
8/14/20255218 W MONTANA STBelmont Cragin31Completed13 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
8/14/20255214 W MONTANA STBelmont Cragin31Completed13 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
8/7/20265523 W NEWPORT AVEPortage Park30Completed13 daysInternetCity 311
10/11/20234740 W 51ST STGarfield Ridge14Completed13 daysPhone CallCity 311
8/5/20257740 N EASTLAKE TERRogers Park49Completed13 daysInternetCity 311
8/11/20251912 N MOHAWK STLincoln Park43Completed13 daysInternetCity 311
8/27/20264430 N PARKSIDE AVEPortage Park38Completed13 daysInternetCity 311
7/28/20263710 S HONORE STMcKinley Park12Completed13 daysInternetCity 311
8/28/2025239 W 95TH STRoseland9Completed13 daysInternetCity 311
8/28/2025247 W 95TH STRoseland9Completed13 daysInternetCity 311
9/9/20261821 N MILWAUKEE AVELogan Square32Completed13 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/11/20266341 N RICHMOND STWest Ridge50Completed13 daysInternetCity 311
8/8/20264737 W PATTERSON AVEPortage Park30Completed13 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
7/25/20263673 N ELSTON AVEIrving Park33Completed13 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
8/28/20263505 W SCHOOL STAvondale35Completed13 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
8/13/20252014 W TOUHY AVERogers Park49Completed13 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
8/18/20263419 N OVERHILL AVEDunning38Completed13 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
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