O’Hare Airport is a busy place in the obvious ways — with more than 68 million travelers and 711,000 flights in 2022. But there’s also a staggering amount of other activity beyond the terminals and outside of public view.
O’Hare’s grassy grounds teem with wild animals. To keep those animals from causing potentially catastrophic conflicts with jetliners, a team of wildlife specialists captures, disperses or euthanizes tens of thousands of the creatures every year.
