On a quiet day at a pond near his childhood home in Morton Grove, a teenage Harrison Ford went down to the water looking for frogs to hunt and rocks to collect. He was alone, but after a while, the air shifted with a new presence.

He looked up to see a red fox a few feet away. “Just sitting there, looking at me. And I looked at him, and he looked at me.”

“I left there knowing something about nature that I had not known before,” he said during a visit to the Field Museum on Wednesday. “And that was that I was a part of nature.”

The movie actor, best known for his roles as Han Solo in “Star Wars” and as Indiana Jones, and longtime environmental activist received the inaugural E.O. Wilson Legacy Award for Transformative Conservation Leadership, named after his late friend, the renowned n

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