alt Hacker NewsThere have been bison at Fermilab for some years, but they are just over the border in Dupage County, not Kane County.
Kane Country has had cougars for quite a while. :)
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pushcx • last Sunday at 4:56 PM
There's a couple dozen at Midewin, too: https://www.fs.usda.gov/r09/midewin/animals-plants/bison-pro...
sanex • last Sunday at 11:50 PM
I honestly thought Fermilab was in Kane. I could see it from my front yard growing up west of Geneva.
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The Fermilab herd was always one of the highlights of visiting there. I always thought that was a really good use for the space inside the accelerator, a nice version of nature and science coexisting. I have it in my head that we used to be able to just drive through Fermi to see the Bison (late 80s/90s).
More on the bison at Fermi: https://www.fnal.gov/pub/about/bisoncam/