Where have you gone, Chicago rat hole? But Schopenhauer could not account for the elation with which residents of Chicago embraced an unlikely attraction this month: a hole in a sidewalk shaped like a rat. The rat hole was dead. Long live the rat hole. NBC Chicago reported that the hole, which for weeks had attracted amused gawkers to a quiet residential area of the Roscoe Village neighborhood, had been filled in with “what appeared to be plaster or concrete.”“Someone did this,” Jonathan Howell told NBC Chicago.

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Persons: Arthur Schopenhauer, Schopenhauer, Long, gawkers, “, Jonathan Howell, Howell Organizations: NBC Chicago, NBC Locations: Chicago, German, Roscoe, Illinois