Something going on at KUGN?

I noticed a lot of air traffic going to/from the airport today. So after being done hiking by the lake, I went to see if anything was going on. Well, something was going on. They had squads blocking off the south lot (normally publicly accessible) and ambulances and such ready. Talked to some other person observing and they said there was some aircraft with a gear problem.

But if that's the case, why the extra squad cars. One or two I could understand, but more than a dozen with two or three unmarked? That doesn't make much sense if blocking off the lot was the only thing they needed to do.

It was really tempting to take photos. (I had my gear.) But I figured that would have gotten more attention than I cared for.

If only I knew somebody that lived adjacent. I would have stopped by and done some "spying" from there. ;)

Black Helicopter at KUGN

I thought some of the stories of these things were myths or folklore. Being prior military, I've seen dark helicopters but not full black ones. And the ones that could be mistaken for black usually had discernable lighter tone markings (usually standard tail numbers or military markings.) They look black from a distance, but they aren't unmarked.

But today, I saw a fully flat black helicopter with dark tinted windows. And I got to look at it from a resonable distance because it landed at the airport to refuel. No discernable markings at all, no tail number nor even a military or government marking nor one of those 3 digit numbers that are typically used for maintenance identification. As they say, this thing was really unmarked. I could make out the model of the helicopter. Either a Bell 206 JetRanger or an OH-58 Kiowa. If it's mil-spec, it didn't have any obvious or discernable pods or hardpoints typically common to the Kiowa version.

And in case anybody takes a look at this post, the time I saw it flying was 10AM today. And it was refueling in front of DB Aviation at 10:15 AM. It might be associated with ICE, since they do have an office trailer at the airport.

And I'll give some links in case anybody wants to follow up on this:
Immigrations and Customs Enforcement
DB-Aviation
Waukegan Airport