Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As egg prices skyrocket, people raising chickens are grateful to have their own supply conveniently located in their backyard.

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 ...

To the editor: The crisis isn’t that eggs are now more expensive. The crisis is that there are billions of chickens being tortured and slaughtered to provide meat and eggs. And now, more chickens are ...