Should Backyard Chicken Coops be Allowed in Bolingbrook?
Nearby towns Downers Grove, Plainfield and St. Charles allow their residents to raise hens in their backyards.
Whether Bolingbrook residents should be allowed to raise chickens in coops in their backyards has "never come up," according to Bolingbrook Village Attorney James Boan. However, Downers Grove, Naperville, Lombard, Westmont and St. Charles all allow residents to have backyard chicken coops. Plainfield most recently gave the go-ahead for backyard chickens in October. Boan said he's seen the trend in nearby communities, but "there's been no request by anybody to raise a chicken in their backyard" in Bolingbrook. Currently, raising chicken and chicken coops are prohibited in Bolingbrook's municipal code, along with goat pens and the raising of turkeys, donkeys, sheep and other animals. As in Plainfield and other communities, the municipal …
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3:17 pm on Friday, November 30, 2012
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