RatCity — Chicago Rat and Rodent Sightings Map

RatCity

4544 locations in the last 30 days (4698 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

53,761 reports match your filters.

DateAddressNeighborhoodWardStatusResponse timeReported viaSource
8/27/202651 E BELLEVUE PLNear North Side42Completed4 daysPhone CallCity 311
8/27/20262534 S ST LOUIS AVESouth Lawndale22Completed8 daysPhone CallCity 311
8/27/20262514 S ST LOUIS AVESouth Lawndale22Completed8 daysPhone CallCity 311
8/27/20263410 S LITUANICA AVEBridgeport11Completed15 daysPhone CallCity 311
8/27/20265441 N EAST RIVER RDO'Hare41Completed14 daysInternetCity 311
8/27/20262513 N NEW ENGLAND AVEMontclare36Completed12 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
8/27/20267616 S MARSHFIELD AVEAuburn Gresham17Completed8 daysPhone CallCity 311
8/27/20262029 W CORTLAND STLogan Square32Completed13 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
8/27/20267245 W BELMONT AVEDunning29Completed8 daysPhone CallCity 311
8/27/20261703 W WALLEN AVERogers Park49Completed15 daysPhone CallCity 311
8/27/20263308 W EVERGREEN AVEHumboldt Park26Completed14 daysInternetCity 311
8/27/20264217 W ARTHINGTON STWest Garfield Park24Completed6 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
8/27/2026734 W WILLOW STLincoln Park43Completed12 daysPhone CallCity 311
8/27/2026820 W BUCKINGHAM PLLake View44Completed15 daysInternetCity 311
8/27/20266447 W 64TH STClearing13Completed14 daysInternetCity 311
8/27/20262716 N GREENVIEW AVELincoln Park32Completed14 daysPhone CallCity 311
8/27/20263343 N KEDVALE AVEIrving Park30Completed12 daysInternetCity 311
8/27/20262054 N LARAMIE AVEBelmont Cragin36Completed12 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
8/27/20264115 W HENDERSON STIrving Park30Completed12 daysInternetCity 311
8/27/20262716 N NEW ENGLAND AVEMontclare36Completed12 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
8/27/20266056 W MELROSE STDunning30Completed12 daysPhone CallCity 311
8/27/20265024 S ELLIS AVEKenwood4Completed4 daysInternetCity 311
8/27/20266348 S LA CROSSE AVEClearing13Completed14 daysInternetCity 311
8/27/20265215 N KIMBALL AVENorth Park39Completed15 daysPhone CallCity 311
8/27/20263810 N FRANCISCO AVEIrving Park33Completed13 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
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