With Mayor Richard Daley set to leave office, it’s time to bring back Meigs Field, according to private pilots who still bemoan the shutdown of the lakefront airport seven years ago. General aviation ...

With furor still flying over the closure of Meigs Field, the Chicago Park District has quietly dusted off old designs to begin planning the transformation of Northerly Island into a 91-acre nature ...

The night between March 30 and 31 marks the 10th anniversary of the bulldozing of Merrill C. Meigs Field Airport near downtown Chicago, ordered by the mayor at that time, Richard M. Daley. To ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Mayor Richard Daley took matters into his own hands when he decided that Meigs Field on Chicago's waterfront should close. Daley said Meigs was a risk after the 9/11 attacks because ...

Two recent news events have lifted pilots’ hopes for restoration of Meigs Field as an airport. President Obama has pledged to include repaving runways to his plans to boost infrastructure spending; ...

On March 31, 2003, people woke up to find huge "X's" carved in the airport runway. Mayor Richard Daley then declared the Meigs Field closed. That piece of land is now called Northerly Island. It was ...

CHICAGO (CBS) --Federal officials visited Northerly Island on Tuesday to see the progress that has been made toward turning the site into an urban oasis on the lakefront. WBBM Newsradio Political ...

Have you ever used Microsoft Flight Simulator before 2004? If so, then you are 100% familiar with the airport we will be talking about. You are right – it is an airport located just in front of ...

The fight to save Chicago's Meigs Field is continuing at the local and national level. Locally, supporters have formed the Meigs Action Committee (MAC) to wage lobbying and public information ...

Twenty years ago, Mayor Richard M. Daley shut down Chicago’s third airport — Merrill C. Meigs Field. A wrecking crew used bulldozers to carve giant X’s into the airstrip late on March 30, 2003. The ...

A Northwest Side alderman is upset over the city's move to dig up a popular side street and is calling it the Meigs Field of the 45th Ward, reports WBBM's Nancy Harty. U.S. Environmental Protection ...