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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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; ...

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 ...

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 ...

For decades, Meigs Field operated as a busy airport on Chicago’s lakefront, serving corporate jets, medical flights, and even U.S. presidents. In March 2003, city crews arrived overnight and carved ...

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 airport. Under the cover of darkness, then-Mayor ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Fifteen years ago, the fate of a strip of Chicago lakefront was changed forever by a team of city bulldozers. It was March 30, 2003, when then-Mayor Richard Daley ordered crews to ...

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 ...