CHICAGO - The city renown for its political corruption has launched a 10-week pilot program to help control the city's rat population -- the rodent kind.
To accomplish this, the infamously crooked Chicago streets and sanitation dispatches a rodent baiting crew to locations identified by service requests. The city also analyzes thousands of calls to predict complaints.
The program is part of the City's SmartData platform. That's funded through a $1 million prize from the Bloomberg Philanthropies' Mayors Challenge ideas competition.
