The “Chicago Rat Hole” mystery is likely solved, as it appears it's not a rat after all. It’s nuttier than you think.

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.

There is a pothole in the pavement in Chicago that is shaped just like a rat, likely made when the road crew laid down the top layer of the road on top of a dead animal. The so-called “Chicago Rat ...

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One of Chicago's more unusual local landmarks, the so-called "rat hole", may finally have had its mysterious origins debunked by researchers. Far from being a relic of the city's notorious gangster ...

Researchers think they have debunked the origin of Chicago’s so-called “rat hole,” one of the Windy City’s weirdest local landmarks. Hold on. The rat hole wasn’t what you think. It wasn’t some back ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Chicago's rat problem is growing. Complaints about the rodents are up and the city can no longer use one method to get rid of them. People who live and work on Chicago's North Side, ...

In January 2024, Chicagoans paid their respects to a peculiar attraction: a rodent-shaped hole stamped into a slab of sidewalk on the city’s North Side. Nicknamed the Chicago Rat Hole or ...

WASHINGTON — A recent study on Chicago's 'rat hole' is putting a new twist on the viral landmark. The study, published by the Royal Society on Wednesday, suggests that the famous sidewalk hole shaped ...