City Has Yet To Recover From Controversial Loss
It was two years ago this week that Chicago Mayor Richard Daley
sent the bulldozers into Miegs Field and ripped the runway asunder,
making the field unusable because -- he said -- he wanted to build
a park. Now, two years later, there is no park and apparently
little, if any, money for one. The air traffic that once buzzed
around Miegs now goes to other airports, but not as much of it as
before. While FAA records show the air traffic at other airports
has risen by approximately 10,500 over the past two years, Meigs
handled 30,000-40,000 operations a year. Where have those other
aircraft gone?