RatCity — Chicago Rat and Rodent Sightings Map

RatCity

4643 locations in the last 30 days (4798 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

54,983 reports match your filters.

DateAddressNeighborhoodWardStatusResponse timeReported viaSource
3/30/20263701 W 68TH STWest Lawn23Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
4/9/20265936 S TRIPP AVEWest Lawn13Completed1 dayAlderman's OfficeCity 311
9/8/20253638 W 71ST STWest Lawn23Completed10 daysPhone CallCity 311
3/4/20266504 S KILDARE AVEWest Lawn13Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
6/30/20263622 W 66TH STWest Lawn23Completed7 daysPhone CallCity 311
6/30/20266048 S TRIPP AVEWest Lawn13Completed7 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/9/20256317 S TRIPP AVEWest Lawn13Completed13 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
7/14/20267149 S HARDING AVEWest Lawn23Completed6 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
11/18/20256345 S TRIPP AVEWest Lawn13Completed1 dayMobile DeviceCity 311
9/4/20253941 W 66TH PLWest Lawn23Completed13 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/22/20253734 W 70TH PLWest Lawn23Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
3/25/20263758 W 70TH STWest Lawn23Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
8/2/20253909 W 70TH STWest Lawn23Completed10 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
3/26/20263709 W 59TH STWest Lawn23Completed1 dayAlderman's OfficeCity 311
3/23/20263705 W 68TH STWest Lawn23Completed2 daysPhone CallCity 311
3/9/20266650 S PULASKI RDWest Lawn13Completed3 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
11/5/20257114 S MILLARD AVEWest Lawn23Completed2 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
11/24/20256604 S KOSTNER AVEWest Lawn13Completed2 daysInternetCity 311
2/28/20266845 S PULASKI RDWest Lawn23Completed4 daysPhone CallCity 311
8/11/20263733 W 66TH STWest Lawn23Completed13 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
7/1/20263909 W 70TH STWest Lawn23Completed6 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/8/20253755 W 69TH PLWest Lawn23Completed10 daysPhone CallCity 311
4/9/20263941 W 64TH STWest Lawn23Completed1 dayMobile DeviceCity 311
9/8/20266054 S KOMENSKY AVEWest Lawn23Completed14 daysInternetCity 311
9/4/20253620 W MARQUETTE RDWest Lawn23Completed13 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
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