Chicago's mayor adds beehives to City Hall's rooftop garden.

CHICAGO--The buzz around City Hall has nothing to do with politics, money or influence. It is the sound of thousands of honeybees.

The city called in beekeepers to install hives on the roof this spring to help pollinate flowers in the building's rooftop garden.

Adding bees apparently was Mayor Richard Daley's idea.

The way Stephanie Averill understands it, the idea came to Daley during a conversation with a friend of hers.

"Somehow, I don't know how, they were talking and she mentioned she had a friend who keeps bees in the city," said Averill, a 39-year-old model who has a hive in the yard of her home in the Bucktown neighborhood.

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