Local activist wins award for spearheading Chicago horse-drawn carriage ban

PETA Press Release (April 29, 2020) — CHICAGO. A Hero to Horses Award is on its way from PETA to Jodie Wiederkehr—the executive director of the Chicago Alliance for Animals and founder of the Partnership to Ban Horse Carriages Worldwide—for leading the charge to end the use of horse-drawn carriages citywide, which the Chicago City Council did in…

Chicago bans horse-drawn carriages

City Council votes to pull horse-drawn carriages off the streets of Chicago by year end CHICAGO (Apr. 24, 2020) — Horse-drawn carriages in Chicago will be a thing of the past after City Council voted 46-4 Friday to ban them by the end of the year. For years, animal rights activists and some aldermen have tried…

Sale of Kline Creek horses sparks worry over their fate

Cross-posted from the Daily Herald By ROBERT SANCHEZ After spending much of their lives working at Kline Creek Farm in West Chicago, two senior horses -- Annie and Buddy -- on March 18 were loaded onto a trailer, driven more than 160 miles to a draft horse auction in Indiana, and sold to a single…

Two teens charged with break-in at Chicago Police Dept Stable

The Chicago Tribune reports: Two boys, 14 and 16, were charged with injuring police animals and burglarizing the Chicago Police Department's Mounted Unit, according to the Chicago Police Department. The Chicago Police Department won't name the two or provide additional information about them because they're juveniles, according to a statement released by police. Each faces…