The pilot program will bring rat contraceptives to Lincoln Park later this summer, Ald. Timmy Knudsen (43rd) announced in a ...

The privately funded "Rat Contraceptive Pilot" uses non-toxic contraceptive pellets to reduce the rat population in Chicago.

Chicago is expanding its fight against rats — and it's not using poison. A North Side alderman is launching a pilot program ...

Alderman Timmy Knudsen, who represents the 43rd ward, announced Thursday the "rat contraceptive pilot" program.

Dragging the weighted black bait box out from the brush with his boots, Ryan Campbell wiped a few beads of sweat from his ...

For the last 10 years, Chicago has earned the title of "rattiest" city. But a new pilot program in a popular neighborhoods could help to break the streak: Rat birth control.

Consider it birth control for rats. In a new pilot program on the South Side, the city’s Streets and Sanitation Department set up 25 enclosed boxes that provide a nonlethal liquid contracepti… ...

Chicago has tried just about everything to control a burgeoning rat population fueled by a construction boom and a mild winter. None of it has worked in a city seemingly overrun by the rodents.

CHICAGO (CBS) -- Hello cats, goodbye rats. At least that's the hope behind a new plan in one suburb. CBS 2's Andrew Ramos has the details of a new pilot program in Niles to control an exploding ...

The ABC7 Eyewitness News I-Team tackles one of Chicago's nastiest problems, the rat-packed city and suburbs.

The Chicago City Council is expanding a rat birth control pilot program to the 43rd Ward, Lincoln Park, which uses cottonseed ...

Chicago has developed a reputation as one of America’s rattiest cities, with one pest control company ranking it first for ...