Subscribe to the Wake Up, cleveland.com’s free morning newsletter, delivered to your inbox weekdays at 5:30 a.m. It’s been more than two decades since the mayor of Chicago shut down the city’s ...

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.

It takes years to build an airport, at least 30 days to get permission from the FAA to legally shut it down-a situation that's unlikely as the agency is in the business of protecting aviation-and just ...

The House last week approved a bill that would ensure the continued operation of Chicago's Meigs Field at least for the next several years. The bill, cleared by the House Transportation and ...

A former lakefront airport has become a green space once envisioned by Daniel Burnham. Northerly Island used to be home to Meigs Field, an airport on the lakefront for small planes. But under cover of ...

Along the lakefront is a strip of land that was once home to a small airport called Meigs Field. Along the Chicago lakefront is a strip of land that was once home to a small airport called Meigs Field ...

Chicago's Merrill C. Meigs Field was illegally destroyed overnight on March 30, 2003, by order of Mayor Richard Daley, who had ditches carved into the runway without proper notice to the FAA or ...