RatCity — Chicago Rat and Rodent Sightings Map

RatCity

4396 locations in the last 30 days (4553 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

56,145 reports match your filters.

DateAddressNeighborhoodWardStatusResponse timeReported viaSource
7/30/202611658 S AVENUE MHegewisch10Completed4 daysPhone CallCity 311
7/30/20268258 S ALBANY AVEAshburn18Completed12 daysInternetCity 311
7/30/20263028 S HAMLIN AVESouth Lawndale22Completed8 daysPhone CallCity 311
7/30/20265249 S LOTUS AVEGarfield Ridge23Completed12 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
7/30/20266633 N NEWGARD AVERogers Park49Completed12 daysPhone CallCity 311
7/30/20262708 N HARDING AVELogan Square35Completed12 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
7/30/20266405 W FOSTER AVENorwood Park41Completed8 daysPhone CallCity 311
7/30/20265248 S NEENAH AVEGarfield Ridge23Completed8 daysPhone CallCity 311
7/30/20263311 S EMERALD AVEBridgeport11Completed11 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
7/30/20261934 W WABANSIA AVEWest Town32Completed12 daysPhone CallCity 311
7/30/20264109 W FLETCHER STAvondale31Completed13 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
7/30/20265356 W BELLE PLAINE AVEPortage Park38Completed18 daysInternetCity 311
7/30/20261822 N RICHMOND STLogan Square26Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
7/30/20269711 S SANGAMON STWashington Heights21Completed6 daysInternetCity 311
7/30/20261925 N SAWYER AVELogan Square26Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
7/30/20266306 N LENOX AVEForest Glen39Completed1 dayPhone CallCity 311
7/30/20262015 W FULLERTON AVELogan Square32Completed13 daysInternetCity 311
7/30/20264718 S KARLOV AVEArcher Heights14Completed6 daysAlderman's OfficeCity 311
7/30/20263643 S HERMITAGE AVEMcKinley Park12Completed11 daysPhone CallCity 311
7/30/20264914 N FRANCISCO AVELincoln Square40Completed8 daysInternetCity 311
7/30/20263700 W 62ND STWest Lawn23Completed8 daysInternetCity 311
7/30/20263617 W 82ND STAshburn18Completed12 daysInternetCity 311
7/30/20265237 S LUNA AVEGarfield Ridge23Completed6 daysMobile DeviceCity 311
7/30/2026639 W WELLINGTON AVELake View44Completed13 daysInternetCity 311
7/30/20262217 W 54TH PLGage Park16Completed1 dayAlderman's OfficeCity 311
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