RatCity — Chicago Rat and Rodent Sightings Map

RatCity

4384 locations in the last 30 days (4539 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

53,341 reports match your filters.

DateAddressNeighborhoodWardStatusResponse timeReported viaSource
9/3/20264853 N HOYNE AVELincoln Square47Completed13 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/3/20261849 W WELLINGTON AVENorth Center32Completed13 daysInternetCity 311
9/3/20262311 W WASHINGTON BLVDNear West Side27Completed14 daysPhone CallCity 311
9/3/20264335 N HAMLIN AVEIrving Park33Completed14 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/3/20263031 N LINCOLN AVELake View32Completed13 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/3/20267915 S LANGLEY AVEChatham6Completed5 daysInternetCity 311
9/2/20262212 N BURLING STLincoln Park43Completed13 daysInternetCity 311
9/2/20265434 N LUDLAM AVEJefferson Park45Completed16 daysInternetCity 311
9/2/20261846 W 17TH STLower West Side25Completed14 daysInternetCity 311
9/2/20262151 W GRACE STNorth Center47Completed13 daysInternetCity 311
9/2/20265523 W WINDSOR AVEPortage Park45Completed18 daysInternetCity 311
9/2/20261442 W BERTEAU AVELake View47Completed14 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/2/2026824 N ASHLAND AVEWest Town1Completed14 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/2/20264152 N AUSTIN AVEPortage Park38Completed13 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/2/20268613 S LOWE AVEAuburn Gresham21Completed8 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/2/20261616 W CORNELIA AVELake View47Completed13 daysInternetCity 311
9/2/20262549 N CLARK STLincoln Park43Completed13 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/2/20261905 N BISSELL STLincoln Park43Completed13 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/2/2026934 W FLETCHER STLake View44Completed13 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/2/20263457 N SOUTHPORT AVELake View44Completed13 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/2/20262139 N BINGHAM STLogan Square1Completed14 daysInternetCity 311
9/2/20264725 N ASHLAND AVEUptown47Completed14 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/2/20261700 N RUTHERFORD AVEAustin29Completed2 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/2/20261913 S ALLPORT STLower West Side25Completed9 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
9/2/20262707 N LAWNDALE AVELogan Square35Completed13 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
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