chicago Rats

For the third straight year, Chicago gets named the rattiest city in the U.S.

Ald. Michele Smith said a spot at Clark and Belden is a "nest for rodents" that needs some concrete.

The city will also test the impact of a poison designed to make rodents infertile, official said.

Shoving dry ice into rat burrows to suffocate them is on hold because it didn't meet federal standards.

Animal welfare groups are teaming up with local residents to round up feral cats and put them to work.

With rats and geese to chase, city should leave the animals alone, alderman proposes.

Ald. Willie Cochran said some residents have yards with "five, 10, 15 pounds of poop, and it smells."

"If rats can't feed, they can't breed," said Shannon Breymaier, spokeswoman for Mayor Rahm Emanuel.

Ald. Brian Hopkins is proposing a "coyote management program" to tolerate the rat predators.

The mayor will add 10 new crews to the Bureau of Rodent Control, he announced in a Monday release.

Rats can tread water for three days. Can you?

But Mayor Rahm Emanuel said scooping up "animal feces" and other preventive measures should help.

Requests for rat baiting were way up in the first two months of this year compared with 2014 and 2015.

Complaints are up nearly 50 percent in Chicago so far this year.

Daily fines possible if you don't clean the dog poop off your property under city effort to fight rats.