RatCity — Chicago Rat and Rodent Sightings Map

RatCity

4548 locations in the last 30 days (4696 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

54,551 reports match your filters.

DateAddressNeighborhoodWardStatusResponse timeReported viaSource
4/22/20266832 S BISHOP STWest Englewood17Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
8/12/20266831 S KOMENSKY AVEWest Lawn23Completed12 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/10/20266831 S KEDVALE AVEWest Lawn23Completed13 daysInternetCity 311
10/28/20256831 S ADA STWest Englewood17Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
8/28/20256831 S ADA STWest Englewood17Completed12 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/29/20256831 S ADA STWest Englewood17Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
6/3/20266830 W 64TH PLClearing13Completed2 daysInternetCity 311
2/14/20266830 W 64TH PLClearing13Completed2 daysInternetCity 311
5/14/20266830 S MARSHFIELD AVEWest Englewood17Completed4 daysInternetCity 311
5/5/20266830 S MARSHFIELD AVEWest Englewood17Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
8/10/20266830 S JUSTINE STWest Englewood17Completed4 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
8/25/20266830 S CARPENTER STEnglewood16Completed15 daysPhone CallCity 311
10/5/20266830 N RIDGEWest Ridge40Open—Salesforce Mobile AppCity 311
8/8/20256829 S MARSHFIELD AVEWest Englewood17Completed12 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/9/20266829 S MAPLEWOOD AVEChicago Lawn16Completed15 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
10/27/20256829 S CORNELL AVESouth Shore5Completed2 daysPhone CallCity 311
8/25/20266829 S CARPENTER STEnglewood16Completed15 daysPhone CallCity 311
7/14/20266828 S THROOP STWest Englewood17Completed7 daysPhone CallCity 311
4/20/20266828 S THROOP STWest Englewood17Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
12/14/20256828 S PULASKI RDWest Lawn23Completed1 dayMobile DeviceCity 311
12/15/20256828 S PULASKI RDWest Lawn23Completed1 dayMobile DeviceCity 311
10/3/20256828 S PAULINA STWest Englewood17Completed11 daysPhone CallCity 311
4/2/20266828 S CAMPBELL AVEChicago Lawn16Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
8/20/20266828 S CAMPBELL AVEChicago Lawn16Completed12 daysPhone CallCity 311
8/20/20266828 S CAMPBELL AVEChicago Lawn16Completed12 daysPhone CallCity 311
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