RatCity — Chicago Rat and Rodent Sightings Map

RatCity

4259 locations in the last 30 days (4412 reports) · Last sighting 17 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

56,467 reports match your filters.

DateAddressNeighborhoodWardStatusResponse timeReported viaSource
8/25/20262914 N WHIPPLE STAvondale35Completed10 daysInternetCity 311
8/1/20252130 W THOMAS STWest Town1Completed10 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
10/10/20256904 S ADA STWest Englewood17Completed10 daysPhone CallCity 311
7/25/20252347 W SHAKESPEARE AVELogan Square32Completed10 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/7/20265031 N KOSTNER AVEAlbany Park39Completed10 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
8/29/20263721 W GRAND AVEHumboldt Park36Completed10 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
10/10/20256900 S ADA STWest Englewood17Completed10 daysInternetCity 311
9/15/20263719 N BROADWAY STLake View46Completed10 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
8/25/202610825 S LOWE AVERoseland21Completed10 daysInternetCity 311
9/22/20254936 S LAKE SHORE DR SBKenwood5Completed10 daysInternetCity 311
8/17/20266149 N BROADWAYEdgewater48Completed10 daysInternetCity 311
10/7/20256201 W PATTERSON AVEDunning38Completed10 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
8/15/20253565 W SHAKESPEARE AVELogan Square35Completed10 daysPhone CallCity 311
8/7/20268814 S CARPENTER STAuburn Gresham21Completed10 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/5/20257741 W VICTORIA STNorwood Park41Completed10 daysInternetCity 311
9/15/20254138 N LAVERGNE AVEPortage Park38Completed10 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
8/11/20252501 N LOWELL AVEHermosa31Completed10 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
8/24/2026801 W DIVERSEY AVELincoln Park43Completed10 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
8/17/20253930 W 56TH PLWest Elsdon23Completed10 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/26/20254857 N ROCKWELL STLincoln Square40Completed10 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/21/20263643 W 85TH PLAshburn18Completed10 daysPhone CallCity 311
8/17/20261848 W BELLE PLAINE AVENorth Center47Completed10 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/12/20252160 N MAPLEWOOD AVELogan Square1Completed10 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
8/23/20261856 S THROOP STLower West Side25Completed10 daysInternetCity 311
9/7/20253618 N OCONTO AVEDunning38Completed10 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
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