RatCity — Chicago Rat and Rodent Sightings Map

RatCity

4398 locations in the last 30 days (4581 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

58,468 reports match your filters.

DateAddressNeighborhoodWardStatusResponse timeReported viaSource
9/1/20264202 S VINCENNES AVEGrand Boulevard3Completed7 daysInternetCity 311
9/10/2025344 E 45TH STGrand Boulevard3Completed8 daysPhone CallCity 311
1/6/20264511 S DR MARTIN LUTHER KING JR DRGrand Boulevard3Completed2 daysPhone CallCity 311
12/27/20254949 S CALUMET AVEGrand Boulevard3Completed2 daysPhone CallCity 311
4/20/20264747 S MICHIGAN AVEGrand Boulevard3Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
4/20/20264747 S MICHIGAN AVEGrand Boulevard3Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
1/5/20264619 S VINCENNES AVEGrand Boulevard3Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
5/5/20264511 S MICHIGAN AVEGrand Boulevard3Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
5/5/20264509 S MICHIGAN AVEGrand Boulevard3Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
5/5/20264400 S INDIANA AVEGrand Boulevard3Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
4/28/20264716 S DR MARTIN LUTHER KING JR DRGrand Boulevard3Completed1 dayInternetCity 311
4/29/2026434 E 42ND PLGrand Boulevard3Completed6 daysInternetCity 311
5/5/20264728 S CALUMET AVEGrand Boulevard3Completed1 dayMobile DeviceCity 311
1/1/20265032 S ST LAWRENCE AVEGrand Boulevard20Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
4/21/20264747 S MICHIGAN AVEGrand Boulevard3Completed0 daysPhone CallCity 311
5/1/20264315 S PRAIRIE AVEGrand Boulevard3Completed3 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
5/1/20264511 S MICHIGAN AVEGrand Boulevard3Completed3 daysPhone CallCity 311
5/4/20264925 S FORRESTVILLE AVEGrand Boulevard4Completed0 daysPhone CallCity 311
4/30/20264315 S PRAIRIE AVEGrand Boulevard3Completed5 daysInternetCity 311
5/29/20264239 S VINCENNES AVEGrand Boulevard4Completed6 daysPhone CallCity 311
8/14/20264914 S ST LAWRENCE AVEGrand Boulevard4Completed11 daysPhone CallCity 311
7/29/2026211 E 48TH STGrand Boulevard3Completed5 daysInternetCity 311
5/11/20264424 S COTTAGE GROVE AVEGrand Boulevard4Completed2 daysInternetCity 311
9/12/20254919 S VINCENNES AVEGrand Boulevard20Completed3 daysPhone CallCity 311
10/12/20255015 S PRAIRIE AVEGrand Boulevard3Completed5 daysInternetCity 311
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