RatCity — Chicago Rat and Rodent Sightings Map

RatCity

4371 locations in the last 30 days (4536 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

57,594 reports match your filters.

DateAddressNeighborhoodWardStatusResponse timeReported viaSource
8/17/20264828 N NEW ENGLAND AVENorwood Park41Completed9 daysInternetCity 311
8/20/20253200 S MAY STBridgeport11Completed9 daysInternetCity 311
9/14/20257345 N HOYNE AVERogers Park49Completed9 daysInternetCity 311
9/15/20264459 S KEDZIE AVEBrighton Park12Completed9 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
7/21/20263136 W MONTROSE AVEAlbany Park33Completed9 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
8/27/20252723 N WESTERN AVELogan Square32Completed9 daysInternetCity 311
9/23/2026535 W 45TH PLNew City15Completed9 daysPhone CallCity 311
8/5/20252703 W BIRCHWOOD AVEWest Ridge50Completed9 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
8/10/20251919 W BALMORAL AVELincoln Square40Completed9 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
8/13/20254325 N KIMBALL AVEIrving Park33Completed9 daysInternetCity 311
8/18/20261930 S MILLER STLower West Side25Completed9 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/23/202511042 S ARTESIAN AVEMorgan Park19Completed9 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/14/20255048 N WINCHESTER AVELincoln Square40Completed9 daysInternetCity 311
7/12/20264254 N DAMEN AVENorth Center47Completed9 daysInternetCity 311
7/12/20264254 N DAMEN AVENorth Center47Completed9 daysPhone CallCity 311
8/20/2025919 N DAMEN AVEWest Town36Completed9 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/14/20259204 S DREXEL AVEBurnside8Completed9 daysPhone CallCity 311
7/23/20254000 W VAN BUREN STWest Garfield Park28Completed9 daysInternetCity 311
10/7/20252032 N TRIPPHermosa35Completed9 daysSalesforce Mobile AppCity 311
9/10/20255017 N FRANCISCO AVELincoln Square40Completed9 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
8/18/20261800 W 18TH STLower West Side25Completed9 daysInternetCity 311
7/27/20255419 N WASHTENAW AVELincoln Square40Completed9 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/23/20253756 W 115TH STMount Greenwood19Completed9 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
9/27/20255541 N CALIFORNIA AVELincoln Square40Completed9 daysInternetCity 311
7/27/20252651 W RASCHER AVELincoln Square40Completed9 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
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