While rats are active year-round, sightings tend to increase from late summer to early winter, as the animals prepare to find a warm place to nest and gather a food stash for colder months.
That’s no different in Forest Park, where Steve Glinke, director of the village’s department of public health and safety, says he’s hearing an increasing number of reports of rats around town.
“We’ve had an outbreak of rats that’s literally without precedent. It’s randomly distributed from north to south, east to west,” Glinke told the Review. “Never have I seen anything like this,” he added, saying that residents are reporting rats in locations that historically haven’t experienced them…