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

Vermin aren’t the first thing you think of when considering where to relocate, but perhaps they should be. Rats populate ...

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

Shamus Toomey, Editor in Chief and co-founder of Block Club Chicago, joins Bob Sirott to share the latest Chicago ...

A local group that launched the rat birth control pilot this spring will sell the product to neighbors at a reduced price ...

Pritzker signs EO on autism data Gov. J.B. Pritzker on Wednesday signed an executive order restricting the unauthorized ...

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 ...

An area non-profit organization is planning a pilot study of rat contraceptives, starting this summer near Lincoln Park, in ...

The latest tactic in Chicago's ongoing war against rats is to attack the problem at the source — with birth control instead ...

Chicago isn’t the first city to attempt to crack down on the rat population using a birth control pilot. In 2024, New York City Council passed a bill to deploy a rat contraceptive pill program ...

CHICAGO (WBBM) — Could birth control be the key to curbing Chicago’s rat infestation? A new pilot program moving away from rat poison is launching on Tuesday in what has been dubbed America ...

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 ...