RatCity — Chicago Rat and Rodent Sightings Map

RatCity

4647 locations in the last 30 days (4810 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

54,128 reports match your filters.

DateAddressNeighborhoodWardStatusResponse timeReported viaSource
8/4/20261915 W GRACE STNorth Center47Completed13 daysInternetCity 311
9/10/20253808 W 80TH PLAshburn18Completed13 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
9/2/20252131 N LARAMIE AVEBelmont Cragin26Completed13 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/18/20264517 N CLAREMONT AVELincoln Square47Completed13 daysPhone CallCity 311
7/10/2026500 W 44TH STNew City15Completed13 daysPhone CallCity 311
8/20/2026917 N LEAMINGTON AVEAustin37Completed13 daysPhone CallCity 311
7/25/20264145 N GREENVIEW AVELake View47Completed13 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/2/20256035 W SCHOOL STDunning30Completed13 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
9/16/20262339 S SPRINGFIELD AVESouth Lawndale22Completed13 daysPhone CallCity 311
8/5/20262037 W BIRCHWOOD AVERogers Park49Completed13 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
8/8/20253702 N SPAULDING AVEIrving Park33Completed13 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
8/21/20261833 N MILWAUKEE AVELogan Square32Completed13 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
7/29/20266300 S PAULINA STWest Englewood15Completed13 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
8/11/20266354 S LOCKWOOD AVEClearing13Completed13 daysInternetCity 311
9/15/20262058 N PULASKI RDHermosa26Completed13 daysPhone CallCity 311
8/13/202610107 S PRINCETON AVERoseland9Completed13 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/15/20265700 S HAMILTON AVEWest Englewood15Completed13 daysPhone CallCity 311
8/11/20261053 W 34TH PLBridgeport11Completed13 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
7/30/20264109 W FLETCHER STAvondale31Completed13 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/3/2026914 W BARRY AVELake View44Completed13 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
8/7/20263843 N CLAREMONT AVENorth Center47Completed13 daysInternetCity 311
8/7/20263109 W ARGYLE STAlbany Park33Completed13 daysInternetCity 311
7/30/20262015 W FULLERTON AVELogan Square32Completed13 daysInternetCity 311
8/1/20252323 W IOWA STWest Town36Completed13 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
8/7/20255359 S NASHVILLE AVEGarfield Ridge23Completed13 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
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