Riot Fest offers $5K and a promise to buy the ‘rat hole' from city of Chicago

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Riot Fest offers $5K and a promise to buy the ‘rat hole' from city of Chicago
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Chicago's popular Riot Fest has a new pitch -- and a promise -- for the future of the viral 'rat hole,' which was removed from its spot in a Roscoe Village…

A spokesperson for the Chicago Department of Transportation said the square of sidewalk"containing the famous 'Chicago rat hole'" has been removed.The punk rock music festival has offered the Chicago Department of Transporation $5,000 to purchase the slab of concrete holding the rat hole, with a promise to"display it at Riot fest every year.", we will pay you $5,000 to buy the Chicago Rat Hole. Seriously. We will display it at Riot Fest every year.

The imprint has been a quirk of a residential block in Chicago’s North Side neighborhood of Roscoe Village for years, but it found fresh fame in January after a Chicago comedian shared a photo on the social platform X.

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