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Chicago rat hole memorialized with music fest
By Adam Harrington,
12 hours ago
Chicago venue hosts inaugural rat hole music festival 00:36
CHICAGO (CBS) -- It has now been almost six months since the infamous Chicago rat hole first captured the hearts of the internet, and two since the square of the sidewalk that contained it was removed.
The Chicago "rat hole" was a rodent-shaped indentation in the concrete in front of a blond brick three-flat building at 1918 W. Roscoe St., between Wolcott and Damen avenues in Roscoe Village. It might have been the imprint of a rat, or it might have been a squirrel.
The event also featured poetry and even burlesque.
The logo for the festival combined a silhouette image of the rat hole with a parody of the yellow Chicago Department of Streets and Sanitation rat abatement posters that are mounted the city's alleys to report the most recent visits by city rodent control workers.
The rat hole had been there for several years—some estimate around 20—but gained fame on social media just this year when artist Winslow Dumaine showed the sidewalk imprint in a post on X, formerly Twitter, in January.
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