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April 16, 2009

Old U.S. Steel South Works in Chicago now a hive of activity for bees

Filed under: Brownfields, Wildlife — Laura B. @ 2:33 pm

Read the full story in the Chicago Tribune.

The long-idled site of the U.S. Steel South Works was buzzing with activity once again Wednesday as 300,000 workers, nurses, cleaners, guards and a few gigolos took up residence on the city’s southern lakefront.

The assembled toilers were busy bees, indeed—five-banded Italian honey bees, to be precise. A Chicago wine and mead maker brought them here to make honey for his mead, which many call “honey wine.”

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