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There 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

• pushcx 10mo ago
  There's a couple dozen at Midewin, too: https://www.fs.usda.gov/r09/midewin/animals-plants/bison-project-homepage https://www.fs.usda.gov/r09/midewin/animals-plants/bison-pro...
• sanex 10mo ago
  I honestly thought Fermilab was in Kane. I could see it from my front yard growing up west of Geneva.
  • pfdietz 10mo ago
    I think the tiniest slice of it is in Kane, but that's not where they have the bison.
• mbreese 10mo ago
  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/ https://www.fnal.gov/pub/about/bisoncam/