RatCity — Chicago Rat and Rodent Sightings Map

RatCity

4494 locations in the last 30 days (4643 reports) · Last sighting 23 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

54,350 reports match your filters.

DateAddressNeighborhoodWardStatusResponse timeReported viaSource
8/20/20252148 N CLAREMONT AVELogan Square32Completed13 daysInternetCity 311
9/2/20254737 W MONTANA STBelmont Cragin31Completed13 daysPhone CallCity 311
8/20/20254100 N LEAVITT STNorth Center47Completed13 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/2/20254927 W CORNELIA AVEPortage Park31Completed13 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
9/12/20264446D N HERMITAGE AVEUptown47Completed13 daysInternetCity 311
8/20/20262523 N KILDARE AVEHermosa31Completed13 daysPhone CallCity 311
8/27/20265738 S PRINCETON AVEEnglewood20Completed13 daysPhone CallCity 311
7/29/20264447 N KEDZIE AVEAlbany Park33Completed13 daysPhone CallCity 311
8/21/20267724 W BELMONT AVEDunning38Completed13 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/12/20251517 W DIVERSEY PKWYLincoln Park32Completed13 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/12/20253327 N HARDING AVEAvondale30Completed13 daysInternetCity 311
8/28/20263941 W 68TH PLWest Lawn23Completed13 daysPhone CallCity 311
8/23/20256000 W HENDERSON STDunning30Completed13 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
10/2/20252905 N KENNETH AVEHermosa31Completed13 daysPhone CallCity 311
10/2/20256120 S KEDZIE AVEChicago Lawn14Completed13 daysInternetCity 311
8/13/20255225 W HENDERSON STPortage Park31Completed13 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
7/28/2026914 S OAKLEY BLVDNear West Side28Completed13 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/9/20261614 W WILSON AVEUptown47Completed13 daysInternetCity 311
7/29/20266637 S FRANCISCO AVEChicago Lawn15Completed13 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/9/202511541 S EGGLESTON AVEWest Pullman21Completed13 daysPhone CallCity 311
7/30/2026610 W BRIAR PLLake View44Completed13 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
8/23/20256000 W BELMONT AVEDunning30Completed13 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
9/8/20263918 N RICHMOND STIrving Park33Completed13 daysInternetCity 311
7/24/20266031 N MASON AVEJefferson Park39Completed13 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
7/14/20263841 N PONTIAC AVEDunning38Completed13 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
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