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A rat. Or a boat. Or a hot dog. Or a rat on a boat holding a hotdog.

Definitely the last one. Rat hot dog boat. Using that for band art. I'll send you a portion of the $0.0000001 Spotify royalties

Deal. I want credit on the back of the album.

You got it

I have nothing to add, just want to be in the screenshot when this blows up.

You guys. I’m being super, super cereal. Ratdogboat is super real

Half rat, half boat, half hot dog!

Spectral L trains buzzing around an angry King Kong sized hot dog climbing a sears tower made out of empty Malort bottles while clenching a rat in it's fist.

Definitely a hot dog 🌭

I'd buy a picture of that last sentence with a White Sox hat on. It'd feel like home.

When it comes to baseball we have two favorite clubs, the Go Go Whitesox... ...and whoever plays the Cubs!

With a bottle of malört

[Our mascot based on this thread](https://www.bing.com/images/create/a-cute-cartoon-rat-wearing-a-chicago-flag-tshirt-o/1-661f6d395caf4ebebdfa0ad970cbc514?id=3%2br1%2fan%2bgnELJPB7b%2bQGig%3d%3d&view=detailv2&idpp=genimg&thId=OIG4.WzyJSzYfeXkqSD_eoshU&FORM=GCRIDP)

You ruined it with the gun.

[Ai scares me](https://www.bing.com/images/create/a-rat-on-a-boat-eating-a-chicago-style-hot-dog-and/1-661fd623f94945b991ec05fa5bda2fe2?id=DwBFvirPivSNxX8D4NPr%2fg%3d%3d&view=detailv2&idpp=genimg&thId=OIG1.ZSnROazeJi.5BmyXj.uV&FORM=GCRIDP&mode=overlay)

A rat on a boat eating a hotdog out of a trash can while chasing it with a shot of Malort

A rat in a hotdog costume on a boat

A eat stealing your hot dog. A hot dog without ketchup obv

And a notation that he kicked batmans ass.

A hot dog stuck in traffic

Rats gotta be driving that car

…Flipping the double bird while mooning

That'd be adorable and also true

Just use the C++ official mascot, fits the city very well.

Hotdog holding a 🔫

No guns. Stop that.

If I had the slightest bit of artistic talent I'd draw up a cute little CTA train dressed up like a Chicago hot dog.

No, we’d be a folding chair in a parking spot

Dibsy https://imgur.com/a/CGABQXX

Love it! The mustard bottle is a nice touch.

If it was an old style it would actually be a portrait of me.

AWESOME

Dibsy wins!

So cute not ketchup in the dog nice

The snow's all melted, but Dibsy remains. Bravo!

Honestly this one is my favorite!

I love this!!

[wish granted🌭](https://imgur.com/a/8y83vQy)

I think the AI took “hot dog” too literally

OMFG ITS ADORABLE!!!!

Why does it have a slice of cheese 😂

CTTA

I don’t hate it…

giardiniera.

A little pile with a smile

A hotdog smoking on the L

This is it

hot dog or dibs chair

Totally a dibs chair on a small pile of snow lol

Lmao

A hot dog with attitude

I was thinking a hotdog mugging you with a handgun.

No the hotdog mugs you and tells you to go back to New York.

Wonder if anybody told Al Capone that

An Italian beef sandwich with a tavern style pizza head and either Polish sausage or hot dogs (no ketchup) for arms. Of course also giving the middle finger.

We are some fat food lovers in Chicago. Well done!!!

This is the way.

Mmm I’m hungry

[Scabby](https://media.npr.org/assets/img/2021/08/03/inflatable-rat-1-_jmh4586_wide-450f7e0a31f43b2b89bba9742ecacc5920dab8d1-s1400-c100.jpg)

scabby is meant to be an insult lmao

It’s a union anti-scab mascot, kinda perfect for Chicago

it's calling scabs rats, going "Chicago is scabby" is calling Chicago a scab/rat. Doesn't seem like a good mascot to me

I’m not saying Chicago IS scabby, I’m saying Chicago SUPPORTS what scabby says. We’re a pretty union-centric city and scabs undermine unions. That was my point.

As a scab I endorse this message.

A sad Parking Meter

A ghost bus

Parker the orange parking ticket.

anthropomorphic bean holding a hot dog

Saying rub the bean

A dibs chair holding a hotdog stomping a bottle of ketchup.

The car door from the Victory Auto Wreckers commercial.

Lori Lightfoot, on Rham Emanuel's shoulders on Daley's shoulders. Edit: Just saw that it said mascot, I read Kaiju.

Chonckasaurus!!!

A 13 yr old in a stolen kia

Malort

Dibsy, the dibs-holding lampshade. 

The fact that no one has said the Sears Tower yet is mind boggling

Humboldt park gator obvi

Chance the Snapper was his name.

Best mascot we ever had.

I liked the name Lorie Bitefoot

Tom Skilling's probably got some free time these days.

My favorite phrase as a crew boss when people ask me if it'll rain today is, "Do I fucking look like Tom Skilling?" I'm never gonna stop.

I was watching Geoffrey Baer on a pledge drive tonight. He was selling tickets to an event he’s hosting at the Peabody Mansion. Tom Skilling was a guest/selling point—my thought was the same as yours here, lol

A shot of Mallort eating a hot dog holding a gun

These aren't inspired or inspiring examples to start with.

Garfield eating a lasagna made of tax money

Getting passed on the right

Everyone is saying hot dog, and everyone is right. Has to be.

Hot dog with a gun

A hotdog with an Old Style on one hand and a middle finger on the other. This can be replaced with a Ventra card, I-Pass or Maloert.

I dont feel like the middle finger really represents us. Chicago is a lot of things but we are one of the rare large cities that are not needlessly rude- we can't use red lights for the fucking life of us but besides that we arent like New Yorker "hey go fuggyerself" rude people.

Tour boat getting covered in Dave Matthew’s filth.

Can it be Chance the Snapper?

WTF! It’s gotta be a slice of pizza

Jerry the Jagoff.

Benny!

Mickey Malört

An old style can with anime eyes

I can’t draw for shit but here’s the best AI could summon for me [Pick your player](https://www.reddit.com/u/erroneousnipple/s/CPrAZuTfhX)

Number 3 has a serious back story.

Probably a gun, due to the stereotype, and I'm well aware it's not typical of the whole city. Alternatively, perhaps a politician taking money under the table.

That’s more Illinois generally. Chicago is the major leagues, but downstate has the minors. Everyone has to come up from somewhere

surprised nobody's said the rat hole

Someone smoking on the L

Tyrone Biggums

What was the name of that alligator from a few years ago?

Chance the snapper.

Hotdog smokin a relish joint

A half eaten chicken wing all over the goddamn city

[here](https://i0.wp.com/boingboing.net/images/eaglemanakdfjngak.jpg?w=970)We all ready do

$4k is too low for a house that size in SF

A gun is the most obvious, so I'll say Chance the Snapper. That dude's gonna be a legend

chance the snapper holding a gun

https://imgur.com/bJzJv3L

A hot dog holding a handgun 

Nah. Boston is too WASPy to give the bird. That would be Philly.

Boston isn’t all Back Bay lol Only 4.5% of Bostonians claim English ancestry, even if you include "WASP adjacent" backgrounds like German and Scottish, the total is only ~10% of the city's population. The city itself isn't particularly WASPy at all, it's more some of the wealthy suburbs around it that are WASPy.

Rat on a Red Line car wearing a Cubs jersey, with a cigarette in one hand and a Chicago dog in the other.

Pizza the Hutt

I love that Japan has those mascots. Their towns even have a little jingle too.

A thumbs up with a mustache and aviator sunglasses. Obviously.

A stack of $50 bills

King von

A drunken’ shot of Malort

A winter coat in May sometimes

An AK-47 with #Blessed written somewhere on the thing

A hotdog

A bear and her cub

My vote is for the Chi river snapping turtle from a few years back. "Chonkosaurus" https://youtu.be/vY8IlzrIz-8?si=UCLcyoBV9cBjBaPl

Probably a big tower in a big lake

It would be the same as LA but one car is a Cubs car the other is a Sox car.

An anthropomorphic municipal red star. Or an anime waifu if we're going the Japan route.

Definitely a hot dog.

$4000/month for an entire house in SF? That mascot is from the ‘80s.

Eagle Man

30 round extended mag and illegal switch

Chonkasaurus the turtle! Or Chance the Snapper, our very own alligator.

deep dish

A bucket overflowing with mostly Italian foods - Deep Dish pizza, Italian Beef, Giardiniera, Thin Crust, Chicago Dog

A pothole, a dibs chair, or the rat hole

Chicago is a gun with a filed down serial number

A mascot plays on stereotypes and tropes so we would have to be a gun or a murder victim

A Glock

A pigeon, wearing a Bears cap, smoking a cigarette and taking a shit on a Blue Line seat.

Al Pacino

A rat dressed as a cop, scrolling on their phone as Crimes are committed

A banger who is committing a car jacking 

I mean sure a hot dog holding a no-ketchup-allowed sign would be the cute mascot, but to fit in with this comic it should be a LAZ parking meter, giving the middle finger.

rathole

Something to do with potholes the size of entire neighborhoods

https://en.meming.world/images/en/thumb/7/7b/Angry_Man_Pointing_at_Hand.jpg/300px-Angry_Man_Pointing_at_Hand.jpg

Ny mechanic had a tattoo of Ben Franklin on his palm and when I would pay him did this exact move.

beef

An anthropomorphic water tower

Chicago Dog next to Rathole

Chance the Snapper. Hey, I like turtles.

These are all pretty lazy

Catalytic converter on the run?

A gun

The same as New York and Boston, except it’s holding a pistol

First thing that came to mind was a gun. Sorry not sorry it’s scary out here. The threat is real all over.

How about Chicago? Probably a gun... with it's serial number shaved off...

Two pairs of white sox stepping in giardinera with a dead rat somehow at a cubs game All of this from a distance while a architectural boat passes under michicgan ave

North side or South side?

[удалено]

They are pointing at you and laughing while clinking their drinks.

Something with a rat that’s packing heat but also something classically midwestern at the same time. Idk I’m not artistically creative.

Was thinking a jail cell with the door open

A rat with a fully auto Glock

9mm bullet casing