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Chicken is prepared with a barbecue sauce made from the resort's honey.
Some of Curry's 100,000 honeybees, hard at work in one of the resort's nine hives.
Hilton Chicago/Oak Brook Hills executive chef Sean Patrick Curry, whose bees could number one million by the end of this year.
Beekeeper and executive chef Sean Patrick Curry installs a bee colony at the Hilton Oak Brook Hills in April.
Curry harvests and extracts honey twice a year. Honey from the first harvest has a lighter hue, while the late summer harvest is a deep amber color.
When Curry began putting pieces of honeycomb on cheese boards, sales skyrocketed.