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Originally posted by einreb
Your I.P. address has been logged and you will soon be visited by men in black coats late at night. 
99.9% of Chicagoans could care less about Meigs. It was sort of cool to have, but generally considered a huge waste of prime real estate.
The bummer was Da Mayors excuse about potential 'terrorism' because of the airport. The shutdown was really just a political F.U. to both the feds and our state government.
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I do not doubt that the average citizen would rather have a park or something there. The beauty of Meigs was that it provided a place for small business planes to land and do business right in downtown Chicago. Flying into O'hare then taking a taxi to a meeting is a royal pain and eats up lots of time.
An evening in Chicago for a private pilot, while not very important, is basically not possible anymore either. It probably costs $150 just to land at O'hare and if you are VFR, Chicago approach sometimes won't even acknowledge you.
The terrorist excuse was just ridiculous because removing a runway does not change the fact that airliners are still crossing overhead to land at O'hare and VFR traffic still flies the coast under 3000'. If I was the mayor, I would be more concerned about a minivan full of explosives parked in a parking garage than a Cessna 150 flying into a building!