RatCity — Chicago Rat and Rodent Sightings Map

RatCity

4681 locations in the last 30 days (4839 reports) · Last sighting 22 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
7/15/20261014 N DAMEN AVEWest Town1Completed12 daysInternetCity 311
9/10/202511126 S NORMAL AVERoseland21Completed12 daysPhone CallCity 311
7/29/20264414 N ARTESIAN AVELincoln Square47Completed12 daysInternetCity 311
9/10/20262823 W CULLERTON STSouth Lawndale25Completed12 daysPhone CallCity 311
7/31/20255000 W HENDERSON STPortage Park31Completed12 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
9/10/2026870 N RICHMOND STWest Town26Completed12 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/18/20264448 S ALBANY AVEBrighton Park12Completed12 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/10/20261119 W 17TH STLower West Side25Completed12 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/9/2026307 E 113TH STRoseland9Completed12 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/9/2026301 E 113TH STRoseland9Completed12 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
9/13/20262748 W WINNEMAC AVELincoln Square40Completed12 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
8/15/20254951 W ROSCOE STPortage Park31Completed12 daysInternetCity 311
7/16/20265100 S WOODLAWN AVEHyde Park5Completed12 daysPhone CallCity 311
7/9/20262143 W CULLOM AVENorth Center47Completed12 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
8/15/2025516 W 97TH STWashington Heights9Completed12 daysInternetCity 311
8/28/20253105 N HAUSSEN CTAvondale31Completed12 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/10/20257020 N GREENVIEW AVERogers Park49Completed12 daysInternetCity 311
8/28/20256024 N LEGETT AVEForest Glen39Completed12 daysPhone CallCity 311
8/14/20264201 S MICHIGAN AVEGrand Boulevard3Completed12 daysPhone CallCity 311
7/12/20262214 W IRVING PARK RDNorth Center47Completed12 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/24/20261018 N HARDING AVEHumboldt Park37Completed12 daysInternetCity 311
9/6/20264630 N WINTHROP AVEUptown46Completed12 daysInternetCity 311
9/3/20258011 S UNION AVEAuburn Gresham6Completed12 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/5/20256009 S NATCHEZ AVEClearing13Completed12 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
8/28/20265140 N KOLMAR AVEAlbany Park39Completed12 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
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