Are you worried that your DIY pest control methods are simply dinner and a show for the rats? When you see (or hear) these signs, it's time to call for backup.

After existing quietly for over two decades on a Roscoe Village sidewalk in Chicago, a rodent-shaped indent became an internet sensation in 2024, when a tweet by comedian and writer, Winslow Dumaine, ...

Chicago’s viral ‘Rat Hole’ is less rat splat, more squirrel squish. Researchers determined it was probably a squirrel that left a rodent-shaped impression in the concrete of the Windy City. Their new ...

The Chicago Rat Hole was the city’s hottest new attraction last year. Tourists swarmed to a quiet residential neighborhood to see the decades-old imprint of a rodent pressed into sidewalk concrete.

Months after the apparent impression of a rat on a Chicago sidewalk went viral and attracted nationwide attention before eventually being removed, the sighting of a second Chicago "rat hole" has been ...

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A viral “rat hole” that captured the imaginations of Chicagoans—and the internet—in 2024 was likely made by a squirrel, not a rat, according to a new study. The sidewalk imprint, dubbed “Splatatouille ...

Columnist and film critic Richard Roeper joins Wendy Snyder (in for Bob Sirott) to discuss whether or not the Chicago Rat Hole was made by a rat and the hype surrounding the tourist attraction. They ...