RatCity — Chicago Rat and Rodent Sightings Map

RatCity

4529 locations in the last 30 days (4693 reports) · Last sighting 12 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

57,251 reports match your filters.

DateAddressNeighborhoodWardStatusResponse timeReported viaSource
7/14/20263549 S UNION AVEBridgeport11Completed10 daysPhone CallCity 311
7/28/20255236 W BERTEAU AVEPortage Park38Completed10 daysInternetCity 311
7/13/20264333 W WEST END AVEWest Garfield Park28Completed10 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/22/20256670 S HARTWELL AVEGreater Grand Crossing6Completed10 daysPhone CallCity 311
8/3/20254344 N SACRAMENTO AVEIrving Park33Completed10 daysInternetCity 311
8/17/20261527 S ST LOUIS AVENorth Lawndale24Completed10 daysPhone CallCity 311
8/29/202510733S S ALBANY AVEMount Greenwood19Completed10 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
8/15/20263566 W CORTLAND STLogan Square26Completed10 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/27/20263834 N DRAKE AVEIrving Park35Completed10 daysInternetCity 311
7/28/20266337 W CORNELIA AVEDunning30Completed10 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
7/26/202610742 S PROSPECT AVEMorgan Park19Completed10 daysPhone CallCity 311
8/4/20255244 S RUTHERFORD AVEGarfield Ridge23Completed10 daysInternetCity 311
9/5/202511413 S WASHTENAW AVEMorgan Park19Completed10 daysPhone CallCity 311
8/17/202610615 S CAMPBELL AVEBeverly19Completed10 daysPhone CallCity 311
7/10/20265700 S HERMITAGE AVEWest Englewood15Completed10 daysPhone CallCity 311
7/25/20266509 S MARSHFIELD AVEWest Englewood15Completed10 daysInternetCity 311
8/17/20266007 S KILPATRICK AVEClearing13Completed10 daysInternetCity 311
7/12/20261543 N CLEVELAND AVENear North Side2Completed10 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
8/16/20253026 S NORMAL AVEBridgeport11Completed10 daysInternetCity 311
10/7/20254628 S SPAULDING AVEBrighton Park12Completed10 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
9/14/20263712 N ALBANY AVEIrving Park33Completed10 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
8/3/20266319 S CENTRAL AVEClearing13Completed10 daysInternetCity 311
8/4/20255520 S NEW ENGLAND AVEGarfield Ridge13Completed10 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/5/20255600 N NATOMA AVENorwood Park41Completed10 daysPhone CallCity 311
8/9/2025834 S ADA STNear West Side28Completed10 daysInternetCity 311
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