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.

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

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

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

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

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

The program is called Scaling Community Violence Intervention for a Safer Chicago, or SC2. Tuesday, local leaders and advocates marked the one-year anniversary of the effort they say so far has been a ...

It is becoming apparent that the increase in ticks and tick bites is corresponding to emergency room visits in Chicago and ...

Hundreds of people are in Humboldt Park to celebrate Colombian Independence Day at the 11th annual El Gran Festival Colombiano.

Nearly two weeks after four people were killed and 14 others were injured in a mass shooting following an album release party ...