A rat abatement poster hangs on a lamppost in a Chicago alley, announcing the area's last visit by city rodent control workers. Credit: Shawn Mulcahy My hair is neatly combed these days, no longer the ...

“A system that centralizes fines ignores two crucial facts about our rodent crisis: rats do not abide by property boundaries and many homeowners are asset rich but cash poor, and do not have the ...