America’s ‘rattiest’ city is drawing droves of pilgrims. Why? | 330Z808 | 2024-01-27 11:08:01
America's 'rattiest' city is drawing droves of pilgrims. Why? | 330Z808 | 2024-01-27 11:08:01
An untold flock of people have made the pilgrimage to see it. They've stared, kneeled, and left choices of dried flowers, coins and miniature flags round it.
No one is aware of how – or why – it's even there. On its Wikipedia page, individuals furiously debate its origin and praise its beauty.
We're not speaking about Stonehenge; we're speaking a few rat-shaped pothole in Chicago, America's 'rattiest' city.
Chicago-based comedian Winslow Dumaine, 32, stated in a publish on X earlier this month that he 'needed to make a pilgrimage to see the Chicago Rat Gap'. The identify capped up, in fact.
Some 5 million views later, the pothole now sees scores of tourists queuing to pay their respects to the 'rat gods'.
One couple even chose the imprint as their wedding ceremony venue. Newlywed Raj Mahal shared footage on TikTok of him and his husband getting hitched by the opening.
'My dream wedding ceremony on the Rat Hole,' he wrote.
One other pilgrim stood piously over the opening, and into it tipped a bottle of Jeppson's Malört, a regionally produced bäsk liqueur. It's what the opening would need, he stated.
Others voted to call the opening 'Splatatouille' – beating out worthy contenders 'Roscoe Street-dent' and 'Lil' Stucky'- after the Lakeview Roscoe Village's Chamber of Commerce& decided the relatively literal 'Chicago Rat Hole' identify didn't do it justice.
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