John's Elgin Market

Sam v

I love coming here with my brother and dad to get some jerky. The jerky is super good highly recommend.

xx yy

Love the small business atmosphere and services. They sell all types of jerky also at decent prices. Now it's been 8 months since I had my deer processed. Been eating it with friends and relatives. Nicely processed and everyone is totally enjoying it. Very hard to find companies like this anymore. AAA+ Place.

james mcKinzie

So ill start by saying that i brought in my own trimmings from 4 deer that were already butchered from a known good and trusted butcher. So there is no way for me to comment on their butchering practices, and i used johns only for their sausage processing. Moved from northern WI to illinois temporarily and it would have been inconvenient to bring it to the place i usually take it up north. I found johns and honestly i was surprised there was any wild game processing in illinois, given that no one hunts down here (comparatively speaking). Pros: If you bring in 50lb of trimmings you will have your own batch made without others animals mixed in! AWESOME AND NEARLY UNHEARD OF! The bulk breakfast sausage is fantastic, seasoned enough you dont have to add but just in case you want to turn it into tacos or add more spice you can do so without oversalting the meat. The hot sticks were also excellent. The Cons: The breakfast links and the bratwurst ore only OK. Not bad, not great. Just “Meh”. The summer sausage was dry to the point it was almost chalky and unedible. Everything is wrapped in butcher paper, the place i usually go to vaccum seals and professionally labels, and is also cheaper. I recall somewhere around $.20 cents less per lb. All in all, i give johns 3 stars only because they will make a batch just for you if you have 50lbs of trimmings. Unless you harvest 3-4 deer a season, this may not work for you.

Dan Weglarz

After reading the reviews I had to put my 2 cents in, Only go here for butchering if you must. Apparently all these reviews have never butchered a deer for themselves, or have gone to a quality butcher before, or never used the meat in the first place. This place rushes with the process leaving hair, bone dust, fat, and silver skin on all the cuts, and dont even waste the meat on the jerky or snack sticks those went out back in the coyote bait pile. The one thing about the place was everyone is very polite and it is a very clean place.