Fear closes airport
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Mayor Richard Daley ordered bulldozers to tear up an airstrip near downtown Chicago this week to keep terrorists from using it to attack the city. “We have done this to protect the millions of people who live, work, and visit downtown Chicago in these uncertain times,” he said. The one-runway airport, Meigs Field, sits on the edge of Lake Michigan, and a plane leaving the field could hit downtown’s lakefront with one sharp turn, Daley said. The Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association said Daley had long sought to close Meigs Field and put a park there, and accused the mayor of trying “to hide behind the fiction of ‘homeland security.’”
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