News Snapshot:
It was the week before Christmas and creatures were stirring in John’s Live Poultry, a storefront butcher shop at 5955 W. Fullerton Ave. Advertisement Chickens were loudly clucking, some alternately pecking at a feeding tray attached to their cage. In the tier below, quail were napping. An employee handing customers’ orders out a pass-through window was singing: “La Blanca Navidad llega. Y nos alegra el corazón.” A drum beat — Whack! Whack! — punctuated the Spanish version of “White Christmas.” Workers were slaughtering fowl and removing their feathers in the back room. Advertisement The front door was open and a...
