Sandy gets a birds-eye view of Tracy Woodson’s notes during Jennifer Murtoff’s chicken-keeping seminar at the Homewood Library May10. (Karen Torme Olson/H-F Chronicle)
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When your chickens come home to roost … in Homewood

Why did the chicken cross the road? If you ask anyone who attended Homewood Library’s May 10 event featuring urban chicken consultant Jennifer Murtoff, the answer to that question might be “to get to Homewood.” 

Homewood is one of the few villages in the South Suburbs where it is legal to keep chickens in backyard coops. Murtoff showed the audience how to look up local ordinances to see if keeping chickens in their yards was…

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