RatCity — Chicago Rat and Rodent Sightings Map

RatCity

4502 locations in the last 30 days (4668 reports) · Last sighting 20 hours ago

📰 Blog
DayWeek30 DaysYear
Loading map…

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.

32080fewer → more

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

52,998 reports match your filters.

DateAddressNeighborhoodWardStatusResponse timeReported viaSource
9/23/20269133 S NORMAL AVEWashington Heights9Open—Mobile DeviceCity 311
9/23/20263249 N KEDZIE AVEAvondale33Open—InternetCity 311
9/15/20265500 S SEELEY AVEWest Englewood15Open—Alderman's OfficeCity 311
9/24/20262700 N MULLIGAN AVEBelmont Cragin36Open—Phone CallCity 311
9/24/20262639 W JEROME STWest Ridge50Open—Phone CallCity 311
9/15/20266436 N CALIFORNIA AVEWest Ridge50Open—Mobile DeviceCity 311
9/14/2026533 E 89TH STChatham8Open—Mobile DeviceCity 311
9/15/20262850 W ADDISON STIrving Park35Open—Phone CallCity 311
9/15/20261263 W 74TH STWest Englewood17Open—Phone CallCity 311
9/23/20263346 N SPRINGFIELD AVEAvondale30Open—Phone CallCity 311
9/23/20263736 N SHEFFIELD AVELake View44Open—InternetCity 311
9/11/20264610 N MAGNOLIA AVEUptown46Open—InternetCity 311
9/15/20265700 S HERMITAGE AVEWest Englewood15Open—Phone CallCity 311
9/15/20266300 S PAULINA STWest Englewood15Open—Phone CallCity 311
9/24/20268519 S BUFFALO AVESouth Chicago10Open—Phone CallCity 311
9/15/20262416 S AVERS AVESouth Lawndale22Open—Mobile DeviceCity 311
9/14/20261412 W BERTEAU AVELake View47Open—Phone CallCity 311
9/12/20266506 N CLAREMONT AVEWest Ridge40Open—InternetCity 311
9/15/20261701 W 63RD STWest Englewood15Open—Phone CallCity 311
9/15/20265600 S CLAREMONT AVEGage Park15Open—Alderman's OfficeCity 311
9/15/20261700 W 63RD STWest Englewood15Open—Alderman's OfficeCity 311
9/24/20265842 S NEWCASTLE AVEGarfield Ridge13Open—InternetCity 311
9/14/20266048 S KEELER AVEWest Lawn13Open—Phone CallCity 311
9/14/20267310 S DANTE AVESouth Shore8Open—InternetCity 311
9/14/20265029 N WESTERN AVELincoln Square40Open—Mobile DeviceCity 311
Page 54 of 2,120
PreviousNext