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Expansion of Sweet Beginnings at Chicago O'Hare Airport Press Conference with Mayor Daley
05/07/2011 - By Chicago, IL

Expansion of Sweet Beginnings at Chicago O'Hare Airport Press Conference with Mayor Daley

Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley, a champion of support to ex-offenders reintegrating into society, recently announced a new partnership for the North Lawndale Employment Network (NLEN)

Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley, a champion of support to ex-offenders reintegrating into society, recently announced a new partnership for the North Lawndale Employment Network (NLEN) and it's wholly owned transitional jobs social enterprise, Sweet Beginnings, LLC with two city agencies.

As a part of Mayor Daley's community farewell tour, he held a press conference at the Peninsula Hotel that brought together all parties involved in the partnership to highlight the Chicago Department of Aviation (CDA) and the Department of Family and Support Services (DFSS) in their joint effort to establish a new Sweet Beginnings apiary at Chicago O'Hare International Airport.

Sweet Beginnings, LLC employs formerly incarcerated men and women in three month transitional jobs where they learn beekeeping, harvest honey, and produce honey-infused skincare products that are sold nationally under the beeline brand name. Sweet Beginnings has honey bee hives at their nonprofit's headquarters on the west side of Chicago, at Wilbur Wright College, the Peninsula Hotel, and now at Chicago O'Hare Airport. O'Hare is the first airport in the United States to host a honey bee apiary (bee-yard) on its property.

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