With support from the Chicago Bird Alliance and Lincoln Park Zoo, the pilot aims to reduce the rat population without poison ...

These enticingly flavored bait blocks are placed outside of buildings, in small black boxes that only rats and mice can enter. But the poison remains in the rodents’ bodies, threatening larger ...

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

City rat poisoning signs on a pole in an alleyway near the 5800 block of North Kenmore Avenue in Edgewater on the North Side, Monday, Oct. 21, 2024. At the same time, poison is becoming less ...