CHICAGO (CBS) --Ten years ago Saturday, then-Mayor Richard M. Daley had backhoes dig giant X's into the lone runway at Meigs Field in the middle of the night, setting the stage to turn the peninsula ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Cleveland officials, meanwhile, promise they are not contemplating a Daley-style move to close Burke. They are, however, taking the first steps toward closing the small airport, which opened in 1947.

Robert Mark from Jetwhine.com and Steve Whitney from Friends of Meigs Field talk about the effects of what Mayor Daley did 10 years ago when he ordered bulldozers to ...

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Ten years ago as Mayor Richard M. Daley worked through political channels to accelerate federal approval to build new runways at the airport his father had dearly called “O’Hara,” the mayor also ...

Meigs Field was a wonderful little airport near downtown Chicago – beloved to millions of Microsoft Flight Simulator users since it had been the default airport since the program was first released in ...