RatCity — Chicago Rat and Rodent Sightings Map

RatCity

4534 locations in the last 30 days (4688 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

53,915 reports match your filters.

DateAddressNeighborhoodWardStatusResponse timeReported viaSource
8/27/20263810 N FRANCISCO AVEIrving Park33Completed13 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
7/23/20262315 N KEDVALE AVEHermosa35Completed13 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
8/12/20252047 N SEMINARY AVELincoln Park43Completed13 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
8/27/20257152 S MAPLEWOOD AVEChicago Lawn17Completed13 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/3/20261730 W FULLERTON AVELincoln Park32Completed13 daysInternetCity 311
8/14/20264564 N CENTRAL PARK AVEAlbany Park33Completed13 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/2/20253942 W 64TH STWest Lawn23Completed13 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/11/20251853 W EDDY STNorth Center47Completed13 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
8/22/20263319 N PARIS AVEDunning38Completed13 daysInternetCity 311
7/31/20255000 W GRACE STPortage Park30Completed13 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
7/16/20262547 W HOMER STLogan Square1Completed13 daysPhone CallCity 311
8/7/20252642 N WILTON AVELincoln Park43Completed13 daysPhone CallCity 311
8/29/20251249 W DEVON AVEEdgewater48Completed13 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
7/22/20264524 W LAWRENCE AVEAlbany Park39Completed13 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/2/20264701 W HARRISON STAustin24Completed13 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/17/20265623 S WOOD STWest Englewood15Completed13 daysPhone CallCity 311
7/24/20261841 N WILMOT AVELogan Square32Completed13 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
7/23/20262419 W MCLEAN AVELogan Square1Completed13 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
7/29/20265619 N MOODY AVENorwood Park45Completed13 daysInternetCity 311
8/27/20256925 S MAPLEWOOD AVEChicago Lawn16Completed13 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/4/20256129 S RUTHERFORD AVEClearing13Completed13 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
8/29/20256337 N LAKEWOOD AVEEdgewater48Completed13 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
8/12/20263222 N RIDGEWAY AVEAvondale30Completed13 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
9/10/2026122 N HAMLIN BLVDWest Garfield Park28Completed13 daysPhone CallCity 311
8/12/20251833 W PATTERSON AVENorth Center47Completed13 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
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