{"id":131229,"date":"2025-08-09T08:08:15","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T08:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/131229\/"},"modified":"2025-08-09T08:08:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T08:08:15","slug":"see-the-squirrel-hole-chicagos-latest-concrete-rodent-imprint-nbc-chicago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/131229\/","title":{"rendered":"See the \u2018Squirrel hole,\u2019 Chicago\u2019s latest concrete rodent imprint \u2013 NBC Chicago"},"content":{"rendered":"

Move over, ‘Chicago rat hole.’ There’s a new rodent hole in town.<\/p>\n

The ‘squirrel hole,’ Chicago’s latest rodent impression in concrete, is hidden in plain site on a busy corner in the Loop. <\/p>\n

The concrete slab housing the impression resembling an outline of a squirrel, bushy tail and all, sits at the northeastern corner of Adams and State streets. <\/p>\n

It’s unknown when the ‘squirrel hole’ first came to be, or how long the imprint will stick around.<\/p>\n

A ‘rat hole’ in Chicago’s Roscoe Village neighborhood gained attention on social media in January 2024, leading locals to turn the imprint into a makeshift shrine<\/a>. <\/p>\n

City officials removed the concrete slab<\/a> with the ‘rat hole’ a few months after it gained attention, after the Chicago Department of Transportation inspected sidewalks in the area and “determined they needed to be replaced because of damage,” the agency said.<\/p>\n

A second, more mysterious ‘rat hole’ <\/a>went viral on Reddit months after the first was removed. <\/p>\n

The ‘squirrel hole’ and the original ‘rat hole’ may share a common ancestor, as Lincoln Park Zoo’s Dr. Seth Magel, the director of the Urban Wildlife Institue, said there are signs the rat-like imprint was “much more likely to be a squirrel.”<\/p>\n

The love Chicagoans have for these rodent impressions is undeniable. Some have even gotten tattoos of the original ‘rat hole<\/a>.’<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Move over, ‘Chicago rat hole.’ There’s a new rodent hole in town. The ‘squirrel hole,’ Chicago’s latest rodent…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":131230,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[960,5386,1818,9814],"class_list":{"0":"post-131229","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-chicago","9":"tag-il","10":"tag-illinois","11":"tag-loop"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114997789121712951","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}