RatCity — Chicago Rat and Rodent Sightings Map

RatCity

4433 locations in the last 30 days (4588 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

56,073 reports match your filters.

DateAddressNeighborhoodWardStatusResponse timeReported viaSource
9/4/20255914 S KEDZIE AVEChicago Lawn14Completed11 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
9/8/20255524 S HONORE STWest Englewood16Completed11 daysPhone CallCity 311
7/9/20262748 N TROY STLogan Square35Completed11 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
9/12/20261239 W 73RD STWest Englewood17Completed11 daysInternetCity 311
9/25/20252908 W 63RD STChicago Lawn15Completed11 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
7/20/20262841 N ALBANY AVEAvondale35Completed11 daysInternetCity 311
9/4/20252852 S KOLIN AVESouth Lawndale22Completed11 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
8/9/20257126 S WASHTENAW AVEChicago Lawn17Completed11 daysPhone CallCity 311
8/3/20251845 W SUPERIOR STWest Town36Completed11 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
7/9/20263331 W BELDEN AVELogan Square35Completed11 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
9/21/20263136 N CHRISTIANA AVEAvondale35Completed11 daysPhone CallCity 311
8/14/20252913 N SACRAMENTO AVEAvondale35Completed11 daysPhone CallCity 311
7/23/20263121 N HARDING AVEAvondale31Completed11 daysInternetCity 311
8/6/20264913 N TRIPP AVEAlbany Park39Completed11 daysInternetCity 311
8/16/20255341 W WINNEMAC AVEJefferson Park45Completed11 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
8/1/20263459 N HALSTED STLake View44Completed11 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/5/20253808 W 80TH PLAshburn18Completed11 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
8/14/20256477 S NORMANDY AVEClearing13Completed11 daysInternetCity 311
9/4/2025630 W STRATFORD PLLake View46Completed11 daysInternetCity 311
9/27/20264100 N MOZART STIrving Park33Completed11 daysInternetCity 311
9/21/20253727 N BELL AVENorth Center47Completed11 daysInternetCity 311
8/22/20261311 N CAMPBELL AVEWest Town26Completed11 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
8/7/20265719 S ARCHER AVEGarfield Ridge23Completed11 daysPhone CallCity 311
8/28/20252321 S TROY STSouth Lawndale25Completed11 daysInternetCity 311
8/14/20267110 W 64TH PLClearing13Completed11 daysInternetCity 311
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