Plan allowing homing pigeon breeders to keep the birds in Chicago lofts stalls for now

Chicago pigeon racing fans won’t see their birds come home to roost as fast as they hoped.

An ordinance to let breeders of homing pigeons keep them in lofts in Chicago was held in committee Monday. The measure’s sponsor, Northwest Side Ald. Gilbert Villegas, 36th, said opponents of the idea made...