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2. www.youtube.com › watchWhy Chicago Secretly Razed A Major Airport - YouTube

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   Support the Channel by becoming a member 👉 https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzIZ8HrzDgc-pNQDUG6avBA/joinIT’S HISTORY - Weekly Tales of American Urban Decay ...

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   Jan 10, 2014 · Indonesia, Kemayoran airport in 1948. An old Dutch reportage of the airport in the early years after WW2. Dutch KLM Constellation planes and Catalina flying boats are seen being serviced.

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4. www.nbcchicago.com › news › what-has-become-ofWhat has become of Chicago's Meigs Field – the lakefront ...

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   Jul 29, 2024 · Meigs Field - once the busiest single-runway airport in the U.S., was suddenly bulldozed in the middle of one night in 2003 - at Mayor Richard M. Daley's direction.

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   Mar 4, 2022 · Subscribe to Nebula at https://go.nebula.tv/haiWatch Crime Spree Episode 1: https://nebula.app/videos/hai-we-have-no-idea-why-hes-using-the-rulerWatch Crime ...

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6. jalopnik.com › chicagos-former-mayor-onceChicago's Mayor Once Destroyed An Airport In The Cover Of Night

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   Apr 14, 2022 · Near midnight on March 30, 2003 Mayor Daley ordered the destruction of the airport. As reported by the Chicago Tribune, bulldozers escorted by the Chicago Police rolled out onto the tarmac...

7. chicago.suntimes.com › 2023/3/31 › 23662485How a Chicago airport was erased from the map 20 years ago

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   Mar 31, 2023 · When the sun came up over Chicago on March 31, 2003, it shone down on six large Xs that were bulldozed overnight into the runway of a small downtown lakefront airport.

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   What happened to Chicago's airport?

   • Some stories of Chicago's history aren't widely known, while others you may have heard before - like what happened to the former Merril C. Meigs Field. It's a moment in time the aviation industry still remembers. In the overnight hours of March 31, 2003, Mayor Richard M. Daley ordered the lakefront airport to be destroyed.

   What has become of Chicago's Meigs Field - the lakefront airport

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   What happened at Chicago airport in 2003?

   • Near midnight on March 30, 2003 Mayor Daley ordered the destruction of the airport. As reported by the Chicago Tribune, bulldozers escorted by the Chicago Police rolled out onto the tarmac and started tearing X-marks into the runway.

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   What happened to Lakefront Airport?

   • It's a moment in time the aviation industry still remembers. In the overnight hours of March 31, 2003, Mayor Richard M. Daley ordered the lakefront airport to be destroyed. Bulldozers carved large “Xs” in its runway, making it unusable.

   What has become of Chicago's Meigs Field - the lakefront airport

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   Did a bulldozer destroy the runway at Meigs Field?

   • Two decades ago, bulldozers sent by Mayor Richard M. Daley destroyed the runway at Meigs Field. The move was seen then and now as an example of mayoral overreach. Meigs Field on the morning of March 31, 2003. Overnight, bulldozers gouged six Xs into the runway of the downtown airport that had been on Northerly Island for nearly 50 years.

   How a Chicago airport was erased from the map 20 years ago

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   Why did Daley close Meigs airport?

   • The idea to close Meigs was first floated in the ’70s because the airport was losing money, according to Sun-Times reporting. Daley’s tactic of closing Meigs came as a shock to even close City Hall observers, but his desire to shut the airport was widely known.

   How a Chicago airport was erased from the map 20 years ago

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   Why did Mayor Daley close Meigs Field?

   • Mayor Richard M. Daley at a City Hall press conference the day after Meigs Field was destroyed. The mayor cited safety concerns as his chief reason for closing the downtown airport. “I am not willing to wait for a tragedy, as some have asked me to do, before making a very difficult and tough decision,” Daley said.

   How a Chicago airport was erased from the map 20 years ago

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9. www.pbs.org › video › 20-years-meigs-field-wasChicago Tonight | 20 Years Since Meigs Field Was Ordered ...

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   Mar 31, 2023 · An airport destroyed in the middle of the night by the government. It may sound like the plot of an exotic spy thriller, but it happened in Chicago 20 years ago this week.

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