RatCity — Chicago Rat and Rodent Sightings Map

RatCity

4583 locations in the last 30 days (4731 reports) · Last sighting 15 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

55,547 reports match your filters.

DateAddressNeighborhoodWardStatusResponse timeReported viaSource
8/25/20253654 N SOUTHPORT AVELake View44Completed11 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/28/20265039 W HENDERSON STPortage Park31Completed11 daysInternetCity 311
8/25/20253014 S BROAD STBridgeport11Completed11 daysInternetCity 311
8/14/20262223 N KEELER AVEHermosa35Completed11 daysspot-open311-Chicago+WorksCity 311
8/3/20254905 W SUPERIOR STAustin37Completed11 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/25/20266446 N NOKOMIS AVEForest Glen45Completed11 daysPhone CallCity 311
7/25/20251908 S TROY STNorth Lawndale24Completed11 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/5/20255704 N KOSTNER AVEForest Glen39Completed11 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
8/3/202610534 S LOWE AVERoseland21Completed11 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/5/20254243 N MONTICELLO AVEIrving Park33Completed11 daysInternetCity 311
9/18/20264053 N LONG AVEPortage Park38Completed11 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
8/14/20262223 N KEELER AVEHermosa35Completed11 daysInternetCity 311
9/10/20263128 W 54TH STGage Park14Completed11 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/12/20254200 N HAMLIN AVEIrving Park39Completed11 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
8/11/20251973 W 111TH STMorgan Park19Completed11 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
8/6/20262419 W NORTH AVEWest Town1Completed11 daysPhone CallCity 311
8/29/20255853 W GRACE STPortage Park38Completed11 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
7/23/20265250 N ROCKWELL STLincoln Square40Completed11 daysInternetCity 311
8/14/2026434 W BRIAR PLLake View44Completed11 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
8/7/20256328 W HUNTINGTON STNorwood Park39Completed11 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/6/20263825 N PANAMA AVEDunning38Completed11 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
8/13/20261751 W CHASE AVERogers Park49Completed11 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
7/10/20262457 W LELAND AVELincoln Square47Completed11 daysInternetCity 311
7/25/2026857 N WOOD STWest Town1Completed11 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
8/31/20263337 N PITTSBURGH AVEDunning38Completed11 daysInternetCity 311
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