‘Crawling in bed with us’: Tenants shed light on rodent-infested South Side apartment building

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CHICAGO (WGN) — On the corner of East 80th Street and South Drexel Avenue in the city’s Grand Crossing neighborhood, a family in a second-floor apartment lives in fear.

“When I tell you my anxiety is high right now, I’m ready to pack up and just leave everything,” said Asya, the tenant of that second-floor apartment. “Rat droppings. It’s all over the place … We are too afraid to cook in here because of everything that’s going on.”…

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