There's a big beehive at O'Hare Airport. It's keeping people out of jail.
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he crew mulled over a few ideas for dealing with the buzzing mass of bees, including spraying them with a hose or dousing them with pesticides. But before any of these ideas could be put into action, the Sweet Beginnings team arrived, scooping up the swarm and its queen bee and whisking it away to be installed in a new hive.
The Sweet Beginnings team maintains 75 beehives in a remote field on the O'Hare property.
The program was initially created as job training for individuals returning from incarceration or with other barriers to employment.
ided by a local beekeeper and several environmental and social organizations, the North Lawndale Employment Network (NLEN) launched Sweet Beginnings in 2004. Their clientele began learning how to care for honeybees, extract and package honey, and infuse the honey into soaps and lotions.
By 2014, the enterprise had 131 hives throughout Chicago.
Better yet, the program had trained 383 people in beekeeping, honey production, packaging, distribution logistics, and marketing.