Article updated: 8/11/2011 11:15 AM

O'Hare Airport buzzing over honey bees

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Curtis Camp, Sweet Beginnings team member, works the hives at O'Hare International Airport.

George LeClaire | Staff Photographer

More than 1 millions bees produce honey at the O'Hare International Airport apiary.

George LeClaire | Staff Photographer

Curtis Camp, Sweet Beginnings team member, works the hives at O'Hare International Airport.

George LeClaire | Staff Photographer

Head beekeeper John Hansen, right, checks a frame from a beehive with Holley Blackwell, general manager with Sweet Beginnings, left, and Curtis Camp.

George LeClaire | Staff Photographer

Holley Blackwell, general manager with Sweet Beginnings, displays a frame from a beehive at O'Hare International Airport.

George LeClaire | Staff Photographer

Bees produce honey for a variety of products at O'Hare International Airport.

George LeClaire | Staff Photographer

Head beekeeper John Hansen, right, checks a hive with help from Sweet Beginnings team member Curtis Camp.

George LeClaire | Staff Photographer

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The sweet smell of success is in the air at O'Hare International Airport with an unusual collaboration aimed at giving honeybees and their keepers a second chance. Twenty-three beehives were installed on a vacant piece of property on the airport's east side this spring.