Once in your vehicle, rats can do a lot of damage. In one case, they caused more than $1,200 in damage to Koren Baker’s ...

"The streets of Chicago are a playground for rats. They chew constantly to explore new resources, contaminate food, and damage property,” John Kane, Orkin's national accounts entomologist and ...

the Chicago Rat Hole. The co-workers chatted eagerly as they walked down Roscoe Street, stopping suddenly at an unassuming spot in front of a house. Below them was the infamous rat-shaped ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Rats feasting on your car's wires is a common problem in Chicago. But what can you do to stop them from attacking your vehicle, and what is the city doing to control its rat problem?

The Chicago "rat hole" was a rodent-shaped indentation in the concrete in front of a blond brick three-flat building at 1918 W. Roscoe St., between Wolcott and Damen avenues in Roscoe Village.

Donation Options Search Search Search The “Chicago rat hole,” which some say is an imprint of a squirrel, near 1918 W. Roscoe Ave. in Roscoe Village. The “Chicago rat hole” has received a ...

No one knows where it came from. By Emily Schmall Reporting from Chicago Update: Someone filled the rat hole, and residents braved the bitter cold to dig it out. Winslow Dumaine was heading to a ...

Chicago's rat reputation has long been cemented, with Orkin naming the city the country's rattiest city each year for the past decade.

Poison can lead to a particularly brutal death for any animal ingesting it, said Maureen Murray, who leads the Chicago Rat Project at the Lincoln Park Zoo. The most common poisons stop the body ...

Chicago has been named the “rattiest” city for 10 years running, according to pest control company Orkin, and efforts to address the infestation often undermine other animals and birds in the ...

In Rat City, a plucky burrow of Chicago street rats gathers for Ratapalooza—”a night to celebrate excess, whether it be food, friendship, or communicable diseases.” Featured headliner?