RatCity — Chicago Rat and Rodent Sightings Map

RatCity

4527 locations in the last 30 days (4682 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

54,257 reports match your filters.

DateAddressNeighborhoodWardStatusResponse timeReported viaSource
10/20/2025711 S DEARBORN STLoop4Completed3 daysInternetCity 311
10/9/2025711 S CAMPBELL AVENear West Side28Completed5 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
2/20/2026711 S CAMPBELL AVENear West Side28Completed3 daysPhone CallCity 311
8/16/2025711 N THROOP STWest Town27Completed4 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/29/2025711 N MONTICELLO AVEHumboldt Park27Completed9 daysInternetCity 311
12/24/2025711 N HOYNE AVEWest Town36Completed5 daysPhone CallCity 311
3/1/2026711 E 89TH PLChatham8Completed3 daysPhone CallCity 311
1/6/2026711 E 61ST STWoodlawn20Completed2 daysPhone CallCity 311
10/1/20257119 W ARTHUR AVENorwood Park41Completed6 daysInternetCity 311
2/15/20267119 S WASHTENAW AVEChicago Lawn17Completed1 dayMobile DeviceCity 311
8/12/20257119 S WASHTENAW AVEChicago Lawn17Completed10 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
7/28/20267118 S WOLCOTT AVEWest Englewood17Completed8 daysPhone CallCity 311
8/30/20267118 S TALMAN AVEChicago Lawn17Completed11 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
12/29/20257118 S SPRINGFIELD AVEWest Lawn23Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
4/24/20267118 N MCALPIN AVEForest Glen45Completed4 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
7/7/20267117 S WABASH AVEGreater Grand Crossing6Completed9 daysPhone CallCity 311
11/5/20257117 S BENNETT AVESouth Shore5Completed2 daysPhone CallCity 311
8/4/20267116 W FOSTER AVENorwood Park41Completed15 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
8/25/20257115 W SUMMERDALE AVENorwood Park41Completed11 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/29/20257115 W 63RD PLClearing13Completed10 daysPhone CallCity 311
8/4/20257115 S ST LAWRENCE AVEGreater Grand Crossing6Completed6 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/25/20257115 S ST LAWRENCE AVEGreater Grand Crossing6Completed11 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
10/7/20257115 S SPRINGFIELD AVEWest Lawn23Completed7 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
9/29/20257115 S DAMEN AVEWest Englewood17Completed7 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
9/21/20267115 S CHAMPLAIN AVEGreater Grand Crossing6Completed11 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
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