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Originally posted by Tim Hancock
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!
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I completely agree... and if i had a plane and lived outside chicago, that would have been an awesome way to come visit.
I still don't know why daley pulled that terrorist line out of his ass. he's usually a pretty straight shooter with crap like that.
In the end... i dont think it was ever in the long term planning of the city to keep it. Its being turned into a park of some sort with a wetlands area or something like that.
-bernie