RatCity — Chicago Rat and Rodent Sightings Map

RatCity

4539 locations in the last 30 days (4687 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
8/5/20256767 N DOWAGIAC AVEForest Glen45Completed12 daysInternetCity 311
8/21/20251203 W SUPERIOR STWest Town27Completed12 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/11/20264211 W HIRSCH STHumboldt Park36Completed12 daysInternetCity 311
9/25/2025375 W ELM STNear North Side27Completed12 daysInternetCity 311
8/30/20251050 W 108TH PLMorgan Park21Completed12 daysInternetCity 311
8/15/20265111 S KILPATRICK AVEGarfield Ridge23Completed12 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/1/20265943 W EDDY STPortage Park30Completed12 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/13/20268909 S MAY STWashington Heights21Completed12 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
7/24/20261525 W OAKDALE AVELake View32Completed12 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/8/20264151 N KENMORE AVEUptown46Completed12 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
7/16/20263640 N HALSTED STLake View44Completed12 daysPhone CallCity 311
7/30/20262709 W ADAMS STEast Garfield Park27Completed12 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/11/20256558 N NATOMA AVENorwood Park41Completed12 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
8/20/20256930 S CARPENTER STEnglewood16Completed12 daysPhone CallCity 311
10/7/2025940 N ORLEANS STNear North Side27Completed12 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/18/20263721 N KOSTNER AVEIrving Park30Completed12 daysPhone CallCity 311
8/18/20265335 S MOZART STGage Park14Completed12 daysInternetCity 311
8/21/20266601 S WHIPPLE STChicago Lawn15Completed12 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
8/23/2025341 W 28TH PLArmour Square11Completed12 daysInternetCity 311
7/10/202613143 S ST LAWRENCE AVERiverdale10Completed12 daysInternetCity 311
8/14/20252940 N MOBILE AVEBelmont Cragin30Completed12 daysInternetCity 311
8/6/20251949 W FULLERTON AVELogan Square32Completed12 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/17/20264437 N BROADWAYUptown46Completed12 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
7/15/20265610 W HIRSCH STAustin29Completed12 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
8/27/20263232 W EASTWOOD AVEAlbany Park33Completed12 daysPhone CallCity 311
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