RatCity — Chicago Rat and Rodent Sightings Map

RatCity

4270 locations in the last 30 days (4428 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

56,389 reports match your filters.

DateAddressNeighborhoodWardStatusResponse timeReported viaSource
9/23/20255851 N LOUISE AVEForest Glen39Completed7 daysInternetCity 311
8/6/20256331 N SPOKANE AVEForest Glen39Completed12 daysInternetCity 311
4/24/20263435 W CARMEN AVENorth Park39Completed3 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
4/24/20264513 N LOWELL AVEIrving Park39Completed3 daysPhone CallCity 311
7/6/20266236 N AVERS AVENorth Park39Completed7 daysInternetCity 311
4/24/20264820 N TRIPP AVEAlbany Park39Completed3 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/18/20254131 W IRVING PARK RDIrving Park39Completed12 daysPhone CallCity 311
8/6/20256110 N MCVICKER AVENorwood Park39Completed12 daysPhone CallCity 311
7/31/20255743 N DRAKE AVENorth Park39Completed18 daysInternetCity 311
8/22/20254820 N KENTUCKY AVEAlbany Park39Completed11 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
8/22/20253216 W VICTORIA STNorth Park39Completed11 daysPhone CallCity 311
8/20/20254309 N LOWELL AVEIrving Park39Completed8 daysInternetCity 311
4/23/20265619 N SPAULDING AVENorth Park39Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
8/26/20264243 N KEYSTONE AVEIrving Park39Completed16 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
8/14/20252816 W SUMMERDALE AVELincoln Square39Completed12 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/26/20254900 N SPRINGFIELD AVEAlbany Park39Completed7 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
8/7/20255625 N ST LOUIS AVENorth Park39Completed12 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
4/23/20265653 N KIMBALL AVENorth Park39Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
8/18/20252933 W BALMORAL AVELincoln Square39Completed10 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/26/20255853 N SPAULDING AVENorth Park39Completed7 daysInternetCity 311
9/23/20255823 N FOREST GLEN AVEForest Glen39Completed7 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
8/4/20256013 N MASON AVEJefferson Park39Completed11 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
8/25/20252859 W FARRAGUT AVELincoln Square39Completed14 daysInternetCity 311
9/10/20266331 W HYACINTH STNorwood Park39Completed15 daysInternetCity 311
9/26/20255859 N SPAULDING AVENorth Park39Completed7 daysInternetCity 311
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