Under the village’s newly adopted rules, residents can raise no more than five egg-laying hens, only in fenced rear yards, if they obtain a chicken-keeping village permit and pay a $50 annual ...

STURTEVANT — Aspiring chicken keepers are in luck, as the Sturtevant Village Board on Tuesday evening voted to implement a new ordinance allowing the raising of backyard chickens.

The topic of residential chicken keeping is once again buzzing in the Village of Caledonia. No official action was taken at the Village Board meeting Monday, but a vocal group of residents are ...

The village has decided to take steps to prohibit residents from keeping chickens. "When we get so many complaints, we have to do something,'' says Mayor Robert Tackman.

At its regular Dec. 18 meeting, the Shorewood Village Board voted 5-2 to approve an ordinance allowing for the keeping of chickens, which had previously been banned by village code. The new ...

The village of Manlius has allowed residents to keep chickens for years, and larger cities such as Ann Arbor, MI, San Diego, CA, and Minneapolis, MN. allow them.

PLOVER - A Plover woman and her family's love for backyard hens has village officials reconsidering whether to allow residents to keep chickens. Alex Hoeft, 30, kept chickens at her home in Plover ...

The fate of a Schaumburg family's six chickens and duck, which members have requested permission to keep since the animals were recently discovered by village officials, will lie in the hands of a ...

Orland Park will allow keeping of hens on some residential properties, but don’t rush out to buy your coops just yet. The zoning change, approved by the Village Board Monday, would allow a ...