Chicago’s “rat birth control” pilot shows positive signs

CHICAGO CITY HALL (WBBM Newsradio) — Early results from the latest effort to get Chicago off the list of America’s rattiest cities suggest it might be paying off.

This all started back in August, when some neighbors in Lincoln Park were invited to pick up the latest innovation in eradicating rats: contraceptive pellets.

“It’s rat birth control,” Ald. Timmy Knudsen told colleagues during a City Council committee meeting Tuesday. “I could eat it, it wouldn’t harm me,” but it makes rats sterile…

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