As Chicago-area shoppers hesitate to reach into grocery coolers when they see the price of eggs, Jim Irwin enjoys going out to his backyard chicken coop on Chicago’s Northwest Side, and Annie Lawson gathers freshly laid eggs in her Grayslake yard.
Winfield resident Sheena Tovt wishes she were so fortunate.
In west suburban Winfield, residents are banned from raising livestock. Amid soaring egg prices, however, the town held an advisory referendum April 1 on whether the village should rethink its policy on backyard chickens…