RatCity — Chicago Rat and Rodent Sightings Map

RatCity

4733 locations in the last 30 days (4892 reports) · Last sighting 18 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

54,983 reports match your filters.

DateAddressNeighborhoodWardStatusResponse timeReported viaSource
9/12/20254338 N KIMBALL AVEIrving Park33Completed12 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/10/20262650 W CORTEZ STWest Town36Completed12 daysPhone CallCity 311
8/19/2026937 N HONORE STWest Town36Completed12 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/2/20265937 W EDDY STPortage Park30Completed12 daysPhone CallCity 311
7/17/20263024 W CHASE AVEWest Ridge50Completed12 daysInternetCity 311
9/3/20254139 N PULASKI RDIrving Park39Completed12 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
8/12/20261506 W JARVIS AVERogers Park49Completed12 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
9/3/20255128 S KEATING AVEGarfield Ridge23Completed12 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
9/11/20264183 S EMERALD AVENew City11Completed12 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
8/17/20251455 W 90TH STWashington Heights21Completed12 daysInternetCity 311
8/7/20251702 N BISSELL STLincoln Park43Completed12 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
8/19/20263126 N SEMINARY AVELake View44Completed12 daysInternetCity 311
9/5/20253743 W MCLEAN AVELogan Square26Completed12 daysInternetCity 311
9/3/20253231 S WALLACE STBridgeport11Completed12 daysInternetCity 311
8/19/20261147 W ERIE STWest Town27Completed12 daysInternetCity 311
9/17/20257934 W ADDISON STDunning38Completed12 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
8/12/20266229 S NATCHEZ AVEClearing13Completed12 daysInternetCity 311
8/23/20255109 W ALTGELD STBelmont Cragin31Completed12 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
8/7/2025163 N LONG AVEAustin37Completed12 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
9/5/20254430 W THOMAS STHumboldt Park37Completed12 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/10/20267144 S INGLESIDE AVEGreater Grand Crossing5Completed12 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/27/20255905 W 64TH STClearing13Completed12 daysInternetCity 311
8/14/2025317 W GOETHE STNear North Side27Completed12 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/23/20264449 N BROADWAYUptown46Completed12 daysInternetCity 311
9/25/2026473 W 27TH STBridgeport11Completed12 daysInternetCity 311
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