Here is Neal Boortz' take on the action. Boortz is a private pilot and is active in AOPA the private pilots assoc.
THE DESTRUCTION OF MEIGS FIELD

Do you have Microsoft Flight Explorer? If you do, the default airport is Meigs Field. Meigs Field is no more.

Chicago Mayor Richard Daley has wanted to close Meigs Field for quite some time. To be more accurate, Daly's wife
has wanted to close Meigs. She wanted to build a park there.

In December of 2001 Daley signed an agreement in which he promised to keep Meigs open for another 25 years, this
in turn for certain improvements and expansions at Chicago's O'Hare airport. Daley was only buying time, waiting for
the right time to strike.

Sunday night seemed to be the right time. At about 11:00 p.m. Daley ordered bulldozers to destroy the runways at
Meigs. He used terrorism as his excuse, though he admitted in a press conference that there is not nor has there ever
been a specific terrorist threat to Chicago related in any way to Meigs.

The action taken by Daley doesn't seem to be too popular in Chicago … even with the non-flying public. A Chicago
Tribune Poll this morning shows that 70% of the 16,000+ people who have responded oppose the mayor's action.

So, yet another politician exploits national security concerns to advance a personal issue … and it looks like Daley's
wife is going to get her park. Politics as usual in Chicago.

At least I had a chance to visit Meigs in 2002 in N750DB ... before the Mayor's wife got her wish."

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