Update on the “Viva los lechoneros” post earlier:

America was a free country, once, before the Barbecue Police put their boot heels on our necks.

“Or, you can call them the Pig Police, since they hate people cooking pigs in their own back yard!” Amante Enad, 55, of Wheeling told me Thursday.

“That’s what I was doing, until they wrote tickets on me and took me to court. I said, ‘What rights do I have to cook in my own back yard? Don’t I have rights to cook a pig on my own property?’ And they gave me the tickets.”

More at this Chicago Tribune article by John Kass.

(Handout photo courtesy of the Village of Wheeling / February 8, 2008)
Update:

As of 2.10, several lawyers have offered legal assistance and an online petition is being drafted.