RatCity — Chicago Rat and Rodent Sightings Map

RatCity

4671 locations in the last 30 days (4822 reports) · Last sighting 19 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

55,179 reports match your filters.

DateAddressNeighborhoodWardStatusResponse timeReported viaSource
8/18/20261800 W 18TH STLower West Side25Completed9 daysInternetCity 311
8/18/20261459 W GRAND AVEWest Town1Completed8 daysInternetCity 311
8/18/2026800 N STATE STNear North Side42Completed2 daysPhone CallCity 311
8/18/2026805 W BUCKINGHAM PLLake View44Completed13 daysInternetCity 311
8/18/20266628 S EVANS AVEWoodlawn20Completed9 daysPhone CallCity 311
8/18/20267642 S MORGAN STAuburn Gresham17Completed10 daysInternetCity 311
8/18/20262147 N LAPORTE AVEBelmont Cragin26Completed10 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
8/18/20267925 S YATES BLVDSouth Chicago7Completed14 daysPhone CallCity 311
8/18/20262531 N CALIFORNIA AVELogan Square1Completed8 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
8/18/20267523 S YATES AVESouth Shore7Completed14 daysPhone CallCity 311
8/18/20267519 S YATES AVESouth Shore7Completed14 daysPhone CallCity 311
8/18/20261523 N KILDARE AVEHumboldt Park36Completed13 daysPhone CallCity 311
8/18/20261931 S MILLER STLower West Side25Completed9 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
8/18/20261930 S MILLER STLower West Side25Completed9 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
8/18/20261304 N LAWNDALE AVEHumboldt Park26Completed10 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
8/18/2026450 E WATERSIDE DRLoop42Completed2 daysPhone CallCity 311
8/18/20262713 N SOUTHPORT AVELincoln Park32Completed15 daysInternetCity 311
8/18/20261940 S RIDGEWAY AVENorth Lawndale24Completed15 daysInternetCity 311
8/18/202610615 S SANGAMON STWashington Heights21Completed10 daysPhone CallCity 311
8/18/20264310 W 14TH STNorth Lawndale24Completed9 daysPhone CallCity 311
8/18/20262338 W RICE STWest Town36Completed13 daysInternetCity 311
8/18/20262537 N MONT CLARE AVEMontclare29Completed13 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
8/18/20264310 W 14TH STNorth Lawndale24Completed9 daysPhone CallCity 311
8/18/20262217 N HOYNE AVELogan Square32Completed15 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
8/18/20263846 N ALTA VISTA TERLake View46Completed16 daysInternetCity 311
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