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

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

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

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… ...

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.

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 Tree House Humane Society's Cats at Work program is helping Chicago residents find an environmentally friendly, feline solution to handling the city's numerous rats Glenn Garner is a form ...

CHICAGO — Out of all things Chicago is known for, its rat problem is not exactly a source of pride for the city's residents and businesses. For eight years in a row, the pest control company ...

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 ...