The Chicago Rat Hole was the city’s hottest new attraction last year. Tourists swarmed to a quiet residential neighborhood to see the decades-old imprint of a rodent pressed into sidewalk concrete.
It turns out that the iconic “Chicago Rat Hole” is not, in fact, a rat. In 2024, the cartoonish impression of a rat-looking animal in a slab of concrete in Chicago’s Roscoe Village neighborhood turned ...