RatCity — Chicago Rat and Rodent Sightings Map

RatCity

4294 locations in the last 30 days (4453 reports) · Last sighting 17 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

56,389 reports match your filters.

DateAddressNeighborhoodWardStatusResponse timeReported viaSource
9/9/20265937 S WOLCOTT AVEWest Englewood15Completed9 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
8/26/20265937 S MAY STEnglewood16Completed15 daysPhone CallCity 311
2/5/20265937 S KILBOURN AVEWest Lawn13Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
2/4/20265937 S KILBOURN AVEWest Lawn13Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
2/3/20265937 S KILBOURN AVEWest Lawn13Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
5/11/20265937 S KILBOURN AVEWest Lawn13Completed2 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
3/19/20265937 S HONORE STWest Englewood15Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
10/10/20255937 N NAGLE AVENorwood Park45Completed10 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/13/20255937 N MILWAUKEE AVENorwood Park45Completed11 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
10/9/20265937 N MILWAUKEE AVENorwood Park45Open—Mobile DeviceCity 311
9/2/20265937 N HARLEM AVENorwood Park41Completed12 daysPhone CallCity 311
7/1/20265937 N EAST CIRCLE AVENorwood Park41Completed6 daysInternetCity 311
9/18/20265936 W EASTWOOD AVEPortage Park45Completed14 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
5/14/20265936 W 60TH STClearing13Completed1 dayMobile DeviceCity 311
4/9/20265936 S TRIPP AVEWest Lawn13Completed1 dayAlderman's OfficeCity 311
4/16/20265936S S MICHIGAN AVEWashington Park20Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
11/20/20255936 S MICHIGAN AVEWashington Park20Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
2/23/20265936 S MICHIGAN AVEWashington Park20Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
9/23/20255936 S MICHIGAN AVEWashington Park20Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
10/20/20255936 S MICHIGAN AVEWashington Park20Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
9/3/20255936 S MICHIGAN AVEWashington Park20Completed12 daysPhone CallCity 311
7/28/20255936 S MAPLEWOOD AVEChicago Lawn16Completed9 daysPhone CallCity 311
10/7/20265936 S ARTESIAN AVEChicago Lawn16Open—Alderman's OfficeCity 311
8/20/20265936 N ST LOUIS AVENorth Park39Completed0 daysInternetCity 311
8/25/20265936 N OZARK AVENorwood Park41Completed14 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
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