RatCity — Chicago Rat and Rodent Sightings Map

RatCity

4251 locations in the last 30 days (4433 reports) · Last sighting yesterday

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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
4/22/20263252 N DRAKE AVEAvondale35Completed1 dayMobile DeviceCity 311
7/29/20262204 N KEDVALE AVEHermosa35Completed13 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
2/9/20262102 N PULASKI RDHermosa35Completed0 daysInternetCity 311
5/13/20262845 W BARRY AVEAvondale35Completed2 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/4/20263901 W SCHUBERT AVELogan Square35Completed12 daysPhone CallCity 311
5/14/20262851 N KEDZIE AVEAvondale35Completed5 daysInternetCity 311
7/22/20263553 W LYNDALE STLogan Square35Completed14 daysInternetCity 311
5/7/20263700 N ELSTON AVEIrving Park35Completed4 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
2/6/20262143 N AVERS AVELogan Square35Completed3 daysInternetCity 311
9/10/20264118 W PALMER STHermosa35Completed12 daysInternetCity 311
6/24/20263022 N CHRISTIANA AVEAvondale35Completed7 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
6/22/20263455 W DIVERSEY AVELogan Square35Completed4 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
6/24/20262941 N WISNER AVEAvondale35Completed7 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
5/27/20262738 N CENTRAL PARK AVELogan Square35Completed5 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/11/20263013 W BELDEN AVELogan Square35Completed11 daysInternetCity 311
5/14/20262930 N TALMAN AVEAvondale35Completed5 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
6/22/20262106 N PULASKI RDHermosa35Completed4 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/22/20263542 W BELMONT AVEAvondale35Completed13 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
6/25/20263565 W SHAKESPEARE AVELogan Square35Completed6 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/22/20262228 N SAWYER AVELogan Square35Completed13 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
9/23/20263057 N SAWYER AVEAvondale35Completed12 daysInternetCity 311
5/15/20263322 N DRAKE AVEAvondale35Completed4 daysInternetCity 311
6/24/20263433 W LYNDALE STLogan Square35Completed7 daysInternetCity 311
8/3/20263414 W MEDILL AVELogan Square35Completed9 daysInternetCity 311
8/2/20263700 N MOZART STIrving Park35Completed10 daysInternetCity 311
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