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 ...

Chicago once had a downtown airport on Northerly Island called Meigs Field, a short walk from museum campuses and the Loop. It operated as a small general aviation facility with a single runway and ...

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 ...

Have you ever used Microsoft Flight Simulator before 2004? If so, then you are 100% familiar with the airport we will be talking about. You are right – it is an airport located just in front of ...

HOUSE PASSES BILL PRESERVING MEIGS FIELD - 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 ...

SEN. PETER FITZGERALD (R-Ill.) is poised to introduce a measure instructing the City of Chicago and the State of Illinois to draft a plan "preserving and utilizing existing Chicago-area reliever and ...

CHICAGO (AP) -- Northerly Island's transformation from Meigs Field into a park cost the city $2.9 million, nearly twice as much as Chicago Park District and city officials had estimated, documents ...

CHICAGO -- Attorneys for the City of Chicago will ask a Cook County judge today to throw out a lawsuit challenging Mayor Richard M. Daley's abrupt closing of Meigs Field last month. The lawsuit, filed ...

Meigs Field was the nation's busiest single-runway airport. So what happened? WTTW News explains. Along the Chicago lakefront is a little strip of land that was once home to a small airport called ...