Forty-one-and-a-half years after the U.S. Census Bureau found that Los Angeles had displaced Chicago as the nation’s second largest city, Los Angeles has displaced Chicago in another distinction — though it may be one that Chicagoans would be more than happy not to have.
For 10 years, going back to the inception of the rankings, the pest control company Orkin rated Chicago the rattiest city in America. Orkin cited the city’s abundance of alleys that provide rats with “hidden havens,” and opportunities for rats to burrow under subway tracks and around underground pipes.
But Los Angeles has now dethroned Chicago in the rodent battle…