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Birder John Longhenry takes a look at the Bell Bowl Prairie adjacent to Chicago Rockford International Airport on Wednesday, Oct. 20, 2021 in Winnebago County in Illinois. Airport construction has begun on an 280-acre expansion that cuts through the 5-acre virgin gravel prairie containing at least 164 species of plants, bumblebees and rare nesting birds, such as the grasshopper sparrow. (Brian Cassella/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)