Sign the petition
Add your name to ask the City to enforce its garbage rules.
Thank you!
The most useful thing you can do next is send this page to a neighbor. And if you see an overflowing dumpster this weekend, here's how to report it so it counts.
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To the Commissioner of Streets and Sanitation, and to everyone running for mayor of Chicago:
Rat infestations grow out of control because dumpsters overflow with garbage over the weekend, but the City writes almost all of its tickets for that garbage on weekdays. In 2026, only 108 of 8,974 rat-harborage tickets, about 1 in 80, were written on a Saturday or a Sunday.
We're asking for two things:
- Send sanitation inspectors out on weekend afternoons, all over the city.
- Count neighbors' photos as evidence. A CHI311 report with a dated, located photo of overflowing garbage should be enough to ticket the owner.
The rules are already on the books - let's enforce them.
Privacy
Only your name is really needed, and we'll take a signature without anything else. Here's what the other boxes are for:
- Your address or ZIP code tells us which ward you live in. An alderman pays much more attention to "200 people in your ward signed this" than to a citywide total, so we count signers by ward. A ZIP code helps, and a street address lets us get the ward exactly right.
- Your email is how we'd tell you when something happens: a candidate answers our questions, a hearing gets scheduled, or there's a weekend when lots of us are filing 311 reports together. That's a few emails a year at most, and you can ask to stop getting them at any time.
And here's what we promise:
- We will never sell, rent, trade or give away your information, including to any political campaign or candidate.
- When we hand the petition to the City and the candidates, they get the names, the total, and how many signers live in each ward. They don't get your email or your address.
- Names aren't posted on this site. The only thing shown here is how many people have signed.
- If you change your mind, email [email protected] and we'll delete your signature.