Here’s a quick, one question pop quiz, hotshots.
Backyard chickens are/is:
- A great band name
- A great restaurant name
- Something that over 11 million US households currently keep
- A practice that’s okay in some parts of Illinois, but definitely not okay in many others
- All of the above
It’s all of the above, and if a bill in the Illinois House ends up going all the way through to be signed by the governor, the number of Illinois households doing it should go way up.
Are you interested, or are backyard chickens something that you’d rather let others take on?
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