RatCity — Chicago Rat and Rodent Sightings Map

RatCity

4269 locations in the last 30 days (4451 reports) · Last sighting 22 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

58,530 reports match your filters.

DateAddressNeighborhoodWardStatusResponse timeReported viaSource
6/9/20265115 S WOLCOTT AVENew City16Completed3 daysInternetCity 311
11/11/20255115 S WOLCOTT AVENew City16Completed2 daysInternetCity 311
9/16/20265115 S NEW ENGLAND AVEGarfield Ridge23Completed13 daysPhone CallCity 311
10/8/20265115 S NEW ENGLAND AVEGarfield Ridge23Completed14 daysPhone CallCity 311
11/18/20255115 S MEADE AVEGarfield Ridge23Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
10/30/20255115 S MEADE AVEGarfield Ridge23Completed5 daysPhone CallCity 311
10/10/20255115 S LOREL AVEGarfield Ridge23Completed11 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
8/3/20265115 S LEAMINGTON AVEGarfield Ridge23Completed10 daysPhone CallCity 311
3/4/20265115 S KEATING AVEGarfield Ridge23Completed1 dayAlderman's OfficeCity 311
5/2/20265115 S CENTRAL AVEGarfield Ridge23Completed3 daysInternetCity 311
6/2/20265115 N ASHLAND AVEUptown40Completed3 daysInternetCity 311
9/29/20255114 W PARKER AVEBelmont Cragin31Completed9 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
7/12/20265114 W GUNNISON STJefferson Park45Completed10 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
8/10/20255114 W DAKIN STPortage Park45Completed11 daysInternetCity 311
3/12/20265114 W DAKIN STPortage Park45Completed4 daysInternetCity 311
4/7/20265114 W ALTGELD STBelmont Cragin31Completed0 daysInternetCity 311
5/16/20265114 S NEWCASTLE AVEGarfield Ridge23Completed2 daysInternetCity 311
10/21/20255114 S NEENAH AVEGarfield Ridge23Completed6 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/16/20265114 S NAGLE AVEGarfield Ridge23Completed13 daysInternetCity 311
6/28/20265114 S LINDER AVEGarfield Ridge23Completed2 daysPhone CallCity 311
8/4/20255114 S HONORE STNew City16Completed9 daysInternetCity 311
10/27/20265114 S CAMPBELL AVEGage Park14Open—Alderman's OfficeCity 311
8/31/20265113 W WINDSOR AVEPortage Park45Completed14 daysPhone CallCity 311
4/14/20265113 W PENSACOLA AVEPortage Park45Completed2 daysInternetCity 311
9/19/20255113 W MELROSE STPortage Park31Completed6 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
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