RatCity — Chicago Rat and Rodent Sightings Map

RatCity

4555 locations in the last 30 days (4702 reports) · Last sighting 20 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
9/12/20257549 S CREGIER AVESouth Shore8Completed11 daysPhone CallCity 311
8/24/20265126 W 63RD PLClearing13Completed11 daysInternetCity 311
9/5/20251515 N ROCKWELL STWest Town1Completed11 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/14/20262442 W BYRON STNorth Center47Completed11 daysInternetCity 311
9/10/20264801 N CENTRAL AVEJefferson Park45Completed11 daysInternetCity 311
10/4/20253719 N NOTTINGHAM AVEDunning38Completed11 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/11/20256215 W MELROSE STDunning30Completed11 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
8/8/20255835 N WINTHROP AVEEdgewater48Completed11 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
8/9/20262141 W RICE STWest Town36Completed11 daysInternetCity 311
8/29/20255258 W 63RD PLClearing13Completed11 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
9/25/20264520 W 83RD STAshburn18Completed11 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
9/18/20261900 W WOLFRAM STNorth Center32Completed11 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/13/20263700 N ALBANY AVEIrving Park33Completed11 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
7/30/20262732 N KEDZIE AVELogan Square35Completed11 daysInternetCity 311
8/7/20256718 S KEDVALE AVEWest Lawn23Completed11 daysPhone CallCity 311
8/16/20255630 S KILDARE AVEWest Elsdon13Completed11 daysPhone CallCity 311
7/10/20264401 S UNION AVENew City15Completed11 daysPhone CallCity 311
8/25/20257247 W PALATINE AVENorwood Park41Completed11 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
8/1/20253543 S ARCHER AVEMcKinley Park12Completed11 daysInternetCity 311
8/31/20263441 N OSAGE AVEDunning38Completed11 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
8/20/20263430 N PANAMA AVEDunning38Completed11 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
8/24/20264058 W 57TH PLWest Elsdon13Completed11 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/14/20263743 N MARSHFIELD AVELake View47Completed11 daysInternetCity 311
9/8/20254205 W SCHOOL STIrving Park30Completed11 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/6/20252119 N CLEVELAND AVELincoln Park43Completed11 daysInternetCity 311
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