RatCity — Chicago Rat and Rodent Sightings Map

RatCity

4569 locations in the last 30 days (4733 reports) · Last sighting 9 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

57,079 reports match your filters.

DateAddressNeighborhoodWardStatusResponse timeReported viaSource
7/29/20255200 S CENTRAL AVEGarfield Ridge23Completed8 daysInternetCity 311
7/29/20256000 W 55TH STGarfield Ridge23Completed8 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
7/29/20255354 S NARRAGANSETT AVEGarfield Ridge23Completed8 daysInternetCity 311
10/9/20265333 S NATCHEZ AVEGarfield Ridge23Open—Alderman's OfficeCity 311
10/9/20265319 S LOCKWOOD AVEGarfield Ridge23Open—Phone CallCity 311
10/9/20265817 S NASHVILLE AVEGarfield Ridge13Completed11 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
10/9/20265004 S LAPORTE AVEGarfield Ridge23Open—InternetCity 311
10/9/20265655 S MOODY AVEGarfield Ridge13Completed11 daysInternetCity 311
10/9/20265026 S LECLAIRE AVEGarfield Ridge23Open—InternetCity 311
7/24/20265700 S MASON AVEGarfield Ridge13Completed11 daysInternetCity 311
10/10/20265804 S NASHVILLE AVEGarfield Ridge13Open—Mobile DeviceCity 311
10/11/20234740 W 51ST STGarfield Ridge14Completed13 daysPhone CallCity 311
10/11/20265741 S MASSASOIT AVEGarfield Ridge13Open—Phone CallCity 311
7/30/20255437 S NEENAH AVEGarfield Ridge23Completed9 daysPhone CallCity 311
7/31/20255251 S NATCHEZ AVEGarfield Ridge23Completed8 daysInternetCity 311
7/31/20255129 S MONITOR AVEGarfield Ridge23Completed8 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
10/11/20265142 S LA CROSSE AVEGarfield Ridge23Open—Mobile DeviceCity 311
10/11/20265151 S NARRAGANSETT AVEGarfield Ridge23Open—InternetCity 311
7/29/20265358 S NATCHEZ AVEGarfield Ridge23Completed13 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
10/12/20265401 S LONG AVEGarfield Ridge23Open—InternetCity 311
10/12/20265401 S LOTUS AVEGarfield Ridge23Open—InternetCity 311
10/12/20264638 W 47TH STGarfield Ridge22Completed8 daysInternetCity 311
10/12/20265716 S MELVINA AVEGarfield Ridge13Open—InternetCity 311
7/30/20265624 S NEW ENGLAND AVEGarfield Ridge13Completed12 daysInternetCity 311
7/30/20265249 S LOTUS AVEGarfield Ridge23Completed12 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
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