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Article updated: 1/27/2012 1:53 PM

Des Plaines committee asks city staff to investigate beekeeping

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The Cook-Dupage Bee Keepers Association and Hanover Park opened this apiary last year as an environmental project, as well as for educational purposes. Hanover Park residents are allowed to have their own apiary at the location.

Daily Herald photo June 2011

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Beekeeping is a growing trend in the suburbs and now Des Plaines city officials, at the urging of Ward 4 resident Rick Bohning, are investigating whether it should be allowed there. “Honeybees are not aggressive except when protecting the honey storage in their hive,” he said.