RatCity — Chicago Rat and Rodent Sightings Map

RatCity

4424 locations in the last 30 days (4588 reports) · Last sighting 21 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

56,705 reports match your filters.

DateAddressNeighborhoodWardStatusResponse timeReported viaSource
7/30/20263508 N KILPATRICK AVEPortage Park30Completed13 daysInternetCity 311
7/30/20266635 S KOMENSKY AVEWest Lawn13Completed13 daysPhone CallCity 311
7/30/202674 E 48TH STGrand Boulevard3Completed4 daysPhone CallCity 311
7/30/20266828 S CAMPBELL AVEChicago Lawn16Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
7/30/20266346 W MONTROSE AVEPortage Park38Completed18 daysPhone CallCity 311
7/30/20263570 W PALMER STLogan Square35Completed12 daysPhone CallCity 311
7/30/20265551 S RUTHERFORD AVEGarfield Ridge13Completed14 daysInternetCity 311
7/30/20261424 W HOWARD STRogers Park49Completed12 daysPhone CallCity 311
7/30/20261008 N DAMEN AVEWest Town1Completed12 daysInternetCity 311
7/30/20264220 S WALLACE STNew City11Completed11 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
7/30/2026937 W 31ST STBridgeport11Completed11 daysInternetCity 311
7/30/20267134 W SUMMERDALE AVENorwood Park41Completed8 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
7/30/20263100 W JEROME STWest Ridge50Completed13 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
7/30/20262214 N LARAMIE AVEBelmont Cragin26Completed13 daysPhone CallCity 311
7/30/20262441 S CENTRAL PARK AVESouth Lawndale22Completed12 daysInternetCity 311
7/30/20265628 W LELAND AVEPortage Park45Completed15 daysPhone CallCity 311
7/30/20266215 W GRAND AVEBelmont Cragin36Completed13 daysPhone CallCity 311
7/30/20263819 W 83RD PLAshburn18Completed12 daysPhone CallCity 311
7/30/20268629 S EMERALD AVEAuburn Gresham21Completed6 daysPhone CallCity 311
7/30/20265822 W ROSCOE STPortage Park30Completed13 daysInternetCity 311
7/30/20268611 S PAULINA STAuburn Gresham18Completed12 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
7/30/20263032 W NORTH AVEHumboldt Park26Completed12 daysInternetCity 311
7/30/20263624 S PARNELL AVEBridgeport11Completed11 daysInternetCity 311
7/30/20264958 W PARKER AVEBelmont Cragin31Completed13 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
7/30/20265718 N MEADE AVENorwood Park45Completed7 daysInternetCity 311
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