“These funky chickens sure are lucky ducks,” observed my 9-year-old companion as we toured six glamorous garden chicken abodes on the Upper Eastside during a Roosevelt School fundraiser Sunday. From ...

As laws governing urban farming have been repealed around the Milwaukee area, more people have started keeping backyard chicken coops. This comes as good news for Karen Krumenacher, owner of Royal ...

You might think that the ol' wood-and-wire chicken coop is one thing that's ineligible for a high-tech makeover. The designers of a camera- and alarm-equipped chicken home known as The Coop, however, ...

Branded is a weekly column devoted to the intersection of marketing, business, design, and culture. If you made a list of things that need to be redesigned and updated for the smart-tech era, it might ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. WESTERN SPRINGS, Ill. — Back in the day, the ...