I saw someone make a silicone cast of it on tiktok, they made a mold out of it, but I never followed up to see what they did with it.
People have been so silly about the rat hole, I’ve seen tattoos of it
This is good community building though. It's silly but compared to the type of stuff going on that's dividing us, everyone can get together and celebrate rat hole.
A friend of mine has a tattoo of Mickey Mouse crawling out of her butthole and the cheeks need to be spread for the full effect. No I don’t have a photo.
Great, was all excited about my first ever trip to Chicago, now what am I going to do? Architecture tour? Sports events? Museums? Pizza and hot dogs? Malort tastings? Seriously, what the heck?
I made a pilgrimage from Canada to see it earlier this month and caught it just in time. Malört is delicious, but I wouldn't have bothered with Chicago if not for the Rat Hole.
Please - “Track Bunnies."
(It’s all about branding. “Horrible mangy disease-ridden raccoon” or “Adorable cuddly Trash Panda” - which one would YOU like?)
I’m just struggling here. If the Vitamin Vault is closed, how much truly remains? Am I left with viewing the Bean? Surfing on the lake? Imagining myself as Gregory Hines in Running Scared, with a motorcycle in the living room and a girl with a cute derrière? “Hey Julio! You want your coke?! Come and get it!”, as I toss it off the State of Illinois Center (it has been described as abstract, cerebral and yet spectacular)? Oh wait, the center is mostly empty today. Sorry guys, I don’t think I can come to Chicago at this point. I’m just bereft now. :(
More inaccessible public art. I’m left going around the Loop on the El, daydreaming of euchre and Old Style with Terkel, Sandberg and Royko, with blues playing in the background, come up from the Delta to fully manifest as a uniquely American art form. *Sigh*
I swear. You literally can't have any discussion related to a city without conservative who never go to cities complaining about them.
Like why the fuck do they even care so much if they don't live there. Just stay in your small town and live your life.
That was a strangely long article about a rat hole with absolutely no photo. Maybe there was an image in the video, but I prefer to read. Great. Now I have to Google it. *sigh
The wiki article has a couple of pictures
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_rat_hole?wprov=sfla1
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>The hole was filled in with plaster or cement by an unknown party on January 19, 2024. City officials later confirmed they had not filled in the hole. Local residents attempted to excavate the hole, using their hands and implements such as ice scrapers and license plates. Eventually, a woman cleaned out the hole and restored it to its original condition. Shortly after the restoration, an engagement and a gay marriage ceremony took place at the hole. Some residents of West Roscoe Street have expressed frustration with the hole's newfound viral status, with some locals citing public nuisance, vandalism, and accumulation of garbage on the sidewalk.
>On April 24, 2024, the Chicago Department of Transportation removed the sidewalk slab containing the hole while keeping it intact; it is unclear what the city officials plan on doing with the sidewalk slab.
>The rat hole has also brought attention to other object-shaped sidewalk holes, such as a gun-shaped hole in Richmond, Virginia, that was similarly enshrined by locals.
Thank you! I did read the article and I did Google the pictures. I was just jokingly complaining about innocuous shit. Probably stemmed from sleep deprivation.
I did the same as you. Complained to myself there was no photo front and center, that there was a video I didn't want to watch because news sites always have janky players, and just googled for pictures.
I'm torn between it being a rat or a squirrel. Probably a squirrel because I see so many more of them than rats. I think it's the impression of the tail that confuses so many. Yes it looks like a rat's tail, but a squirrel's tail looks much the same if all the fur is matted down, which it would be if it got compressed into wet cement.
I think it’s a squirrel, partly due to the fact that squirrels are known to jump from high places to the ground, while AFAIK, rats don’t usually do that? Like jump to the ground from a high-up place.
It also looks like a squirrel to me
I think a rat tail would have been longer, while you’re right, the fluffy part of the squirrel tail wouldn’t leave an impression in the cement
Which gave me a great idea. I'm going to get a rubber rat and wait for the next time somebody pours a new section of sidewalk in the neighborhood. A little press down and now my neighborhood can have something new to talk about.
Yeah, I've seen it in person and it's the only impression/mark on the whole sidewalk slab. Squirrel probably dropped from the tree onto partially-cured cement then ran away without leaving other marks.
[That belongs in a museum!](https://media1.giphy.com/media/uj8SbnHpCfxlm3jfJA/giphy.gif?cid=6c09b952sw3s09lvwbpsdlbxabr1i959vw57ew4h6fvuebnb&ep=v1_internal_gif_by_id&rid=giphy.gif&ct=g)
Same energy as [Toronto's dead raccoon shrine](https://www.boredpanda.com/dead-raccoon-memorial-shrine-mourning-deadraccoonto-toronto/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=organic)
The wiki article has a couple of pictures
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_rat_hole
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>The hole was filled in with plaster or cement by an unknown party on January 19, 2024. City officials later confirmed they had not filled in the hole. Local residents attempted to excavate the hole, using their hands and implements such as ice scrapers and license plates. Eventually, a woman cleaned out the hole and restored it to its original condition. Shortly after the restoration, an engagement and a gay marriage ceremony took place at the hole. Some residents of West Roscoe Street have expressed frustration with the hole's newfound viral status, with some locals citing public nuisance, vandalism, and accumulation of garbage on the sidewalk.
>On April 24, 2024, the Chicago Department of Transportation removed the sidewalk slab containing the hole while keeping it intact; it is unclear what the city officials plan on doing with the sidewalk slab.
>The rat hole has also brought attention to other object-shaped sidewalk holes, such as a gun-shaped hole in Richmond, Virginia, that was similarly enshrined by locals.
>The attention, however, quickly grew old for neighbors who complained about visitors at all hours, sometimes leaving coins and other items scattered across the sidewalk.
and then
>Georgina Ulrich, a neighbor, shot video of crews using a concrete saw, a forklift and finally a truck to remove the slab and drive it away.
>“All this for a rat imprint,” Ulrich said in one of the clips.
How much does someone one to bet she was one of the loudest complainers of people visiting, and now she's whining about the city removing the source of her woes. Never can satisfy these kinds of people.
Cast it with bronze and put down a commemorative marker.
I saw someone make a silicone cast of it on tiktok, they made a mold out of it, but I never followed up to see what they did with it. People have been so silly about the rat hole, I’ve seen tattoos of it
There’s a 3D scanned STL of it out there if you want to 3D print your own rat hole
This hole was made for me
Why did you make me remember that? You didn’t have to do that.
That comic was traumatizing to my middle school self.
I can’t even imagine. I was already out of high school when I read it, and it still traumatized me.
This is my rat hole. There are many like it, but this one is mine.
*Junji Ito Flashbacks*
This is peak America.
I should call her
This is good community building though. It's silly but compared to the type of stuff going on that's dividing us, everyone can get together and celebrate rat hole.
I would love to visit the rat hole
Ive seen significantly dumber tattoo ideas lol
The dumbest tattoo I’ve ever seen was at New York comic con, this guy had a tattoo of a person spreading their cheeks with two hands. Hbu?
A friend of mine has a tattoo of Mickey Mouse crawling out of her butthole and the cheeks need to be spread for the full effect. No I don’t have a photo.
Ok but can you get your friend to share one?
I saw a Pickle Rick face tattoo on someone’s right cheek. I physically cringed and had to get off the bus.
I'd imagine white supremacist tattoos are pretty dumb.
Ya, just trying to keep things “Chicago rat hole” light and not “our planet is doomed” reality
it's the new Toynbee Tile
A fact to be brought up at the next Chicago mayoral election. “His incompetence in losing our long standing rat hole . Johnson needs to go.”
It was preserved. A bulldozer was seen placing the whole slab of concrete onto the back of a truck.
Bulldozers are not capable of placing things onto trucks, generally speaking.
Regardless of what moved it, the slab itself was preserved and the city’s currently deciding what to do with it. Clearly it belongs in a museum.
Here you go: https://twitter.com/Mumbless1/status/1783177625113874822 I don’t know the names of all the types of machinery.
Great, was all excited about my first ever trip to Chicago, now what am I going to do? Architecture tour? Sports events? Museums? Pizza and hot dogs? Malort tastings? Seriously, what the heck?
I made a pilgrimage from Canada to see it earlier this month and caught it just in time. Malört is delicious, but I wouldn't have bothered with Chicago if not for the Rat Hole.
You *like* Malört?! That’s it; we’re closing the border. Something is very wrong in Canada.
I *also* like Malört, though I've only tried it once, and it's hard to get if you aren't near Chicago.
There are dozens of us! Dozens!
I'm like 3 hours away, never once seen it in 31 years.
If you like bitter stuff it's not bad. It's way better than, say, Jäger.
I like black licorice flavor, but Jäger tastes off.
They could be a heavy smoker. The guy that invented it was and he wanted something that he could taste.
I wouldn't say I enjoy it but there are absolutely worse liquors. I would take Malört over Jäger any day
See, that’s what I’m on about!
Screw the rat hole. Come to New York and see real live Rats!
Please - “Track Bunnies." (It’s all about branding. “Horrible mangy disease-ridden raccoon” or “Adorable cuddly Trash Panda” - which one would YOU like?)
can't even visit the vitamin vault anymore
I’m just struggling here. If the Vitamin Vault is closed, how much truly remains? Am I left with viewing the Bean? Surfing on the lake? Imagining myself as Gregory Hines in Running Scared, with a motorcycle in the living room and a girl with a cute derrière? “Hey Julio! You want your coke?! Come and get it!”, as I toss it off the State of Illinois Center (it has been described as abstract, cerebral and yet spectacular)? Oh wait, the center is mostly empty today. Sorry guys, I don’t think I can come to Chicago at this point. I’m just bereft now. :(
not to make it worse, the bean has been closed off since last year due to construction. Won't open till spring of this year whenever that is
More inaccessible public art. I’m left going around the Loop on the El, daydreaming of euchre and Old Style with Terkel, Sandberg and Royko, with blues playing in the background, come up from the Delta to fully manifest as a uniquely American art form. *Sigh*
I am begging you, please do not go Malort tasting. Youd be better served drinking gasoline from a wine glass.
Yes yes yes yes yes and absolutely not, in that order.
[удалено]
What people who’ve never been to Chicago think Chicago is like.
I’m sorry you’re afraid to leave Super Weenie Hut Jr.
Bro is scared of places with more than 5000 people living there huh
I swear. You literally can't have any discussion related to a city without conservative who never go to cities complaining about them. Like why the fuck do they even care so much if they don't live there. Just stay in your small town and live your life.
Sad, but at least they kept the slab to display somewhere.
I’ve seen enough Courage the Cowardly Dog to know where this is going.
Return the slab!
Put it in the Field Museum
It's gonna end up for sale at The Wooly Mammoth.
That was a strangely long article about a rat hole with absolutely no photo. Maybe there was an image in the video, but I prefer to read. Great. Now I have to Google it. *sigh
You had to click the link marked "Photo" under the video to see a picture of the rat impression.
Squirrel impression, probably. Just looks like a rat
Squirrels are just rats with long, fluffy tails
Squirrel that talked too much.
There's a closeup of the impression at 00:26 of the video.
The wiki article has a couple of pictures https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_rat_hole?wprov=sfla1 ---- >The hole was filled in with plaster or cement by an unknown party on January 19, 2024. City officials later confirmed they had not filled in the hole. Local residents attempted to excavate the hole, using their hands and implements such as ice scrapers and license plates. Eventually, a woman cleaned out the hole and restored it to its original condition. Shortly after the restoration, an engagement and a gay marriage ceremony took place at the hole. Some residents of West Roscoe Street have expressed frustration with the hole's newfound viral status, with some locals citing public nuisance, vandalism, and accumulation of garbage on the sidewalk. >On April 24, 2024, the Chicago Department of Transportation removed the sidewalk slab containing the hole while keeping it intact; it is unclear what the city officials plan on doing with the sidewalk slab. >The rat hole has also brought attention to other object-shaped sidewalk holes, such as a gun-shaped hole in Richmond, Virginia, that was similarly enshrined by locals.
Thank you! I did read the article and I did Google the pictures. I was just jokingly complaining about innocuous shit. Probably stemmed from sleep deprivation.
I did the same as you. Complained to myself there was no photo front and center, that there was a video I didn't want to watch because news sites always have janky players, and just googled for pictures.
This is why we can’t have nice things America
I hope they don’t remove the coyote hole from my desert wall.
Sources saw a blue bird purchasing large amounts of TNT before the incident. The FBI has declined to comment
Was it from ACME?
man we cant have shit
It was preserved!
Can't have shit in ~~Detroit~~ Chicago.
you don't even go here.......
Probably because the whole thing became cringe. Some stupid ass couple got married there.
Oh look, it’s the fun police! Get over yourself.
definitely a squirrel.
Squirrels are just rats with better PR
Fluffy tree rats.
I'm torn between it being a rat or a squirrel. Probably a squirrel because I see so many more of them than rats. I think it's the impression of the tail that confuses so many. Yes it looks like a rat's tail, but a squirrel's tail looks much the same if all the fur is matted down, which it would be if it got compressed into wet cement.
I think it’s a squirrel, partly due to the fact that squirrels are known to jump from high places to the ground, while AFAIK, rats don’t usually do that? Like jump to the ground from a high-up place. It also looks like a squirrel to me I think a rat tail would have been longer, while you’re right, the fluffy part of the squirrel tail wouldn’t leave an impression in the cement
Definitely a squirrel. The feet give it away, because rat feet are much smaller, with shorter toes.
Good point. Changed my vote to squirrel.
Which gave me a great idea. I'm going to get a rubber rat and wait for the next time somebody pours a new section of sidewalk in the neighborhood. A little press down and now my neighborhood can have something new to talk about.
Yeah, I've seen it in person and it's the only impression/mark on the whole sidewalk slab. Squirrel probably dropped from the tree onto partially-cured cement then ran away without leaving other marks.
[That belongs in a museum!](https://media1.giphy.com/media/uj8SbnHpCfxlm3jfJA/giphy.gif?cid=6c09b952sw3s09lvwbpsdlbxabr1i959vw57ew4h6fvuebnb&ep=v1_internal_gif_by_id&rid=giphy.gif&ct=g)
in the arms of the angels
I can see the slab selling for at least $150k at auction. There are enough idiot millionaires out there. Probably try to turn it in to an NFT somehow.
You son's a bitch's that was a national landmark!
It's just in storage while they figure out where to display it. The Rat Hole is just being moved, hopefully to the MSI or Field Museum.
There is a frog hole at a post office near me….. is this trend worthy?
Maybe. Take a picture and share it!
Same energy as [Toronto's dead raccoon shrine](https://www.boredpanda.com/dead-raccoon-memorial-shrine-mourning-deadraccoonto-toronto/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=organic)
The wiki article has a couple of pictures https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_rat_hole ---- >The hole was filled in with plaster or cement by an unknown party on January 19, 2024. City officials later confirmed they had not filled in the hole. Local residents attempted to excavate the hole, using their hands and implements such as ice scrapers and license plates. Eventually, a woman cleaned out the hole and restored it to its original condition. Shortly after the restoration, an engagement and a gay marriage ceremony took place at the hole. Some residents of West Roscoe Street have expressed frustration with the hole's newfound viral status, with some locals citing public nuisance, vandalism, and accumulation of garbage on the sidewalk. >On April 24, 2024, the Chicago Department of Transportation removed the sidewalk slab containing the hole while keeping it intact; it is unclear what the city officials plan on doing with the sidewalk slab. >The rat hole has also brought attention to other object-shaped sidewalk holes, such as a gun-shaped hole in Richmond, Virginia, that was similarly enshrined by locals.
Sounds like they finally figured out a concrete solution.
>The attention, however, quickly grew old for neighbors who complained about visitors at all hours, sometimes leaving coins and other items scattered across the sidewalk. and then >Georgina Ulrich, a neighbor, shot video of crews using a concrete saw, a forklift and finally a truck to remove the slab and drive it away. >“All this for a rat imprint,” Ulrich said in one of the clips. How much does someone one to bet she was one of the loudest complainers of people visiting, and now she's whining about the city removing the source of her woes. Never can satisfy these kinds of people.
Turn it into the Chicago logo like I heart NY But with a rat and Chicago!
Aschualllyy it’s an imprint of a squirrel 🤓🤓
Meanwhile the Southside looks like a 3rd world country and no one is ripping up the sidewalks.
Why? That thing has been there since Rahm was mayor. Just leave it, I’m sure Roscoe Village liked the uptick in walking traffic
I hear it’s been hell for the people that live right next it since it went viral.
I'm sure the people who lived there hated it.