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Bond In Investing Savings The bulldozers showed up at Meigs Field in pitch darkness to rip up the runway, and close forever Chicago's lakefront airport -- sparking an outcry from flying enthusiasts who considered it the nation's most important single-runway airport.

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Bond Terms Trading Just before midnight Sunday, backhoes and large trucks trundled into the airport and began carving large X's into the runway. Chicago police barred access to the site while the work took place. Daley said the covert action was done to avoid delays and lawsuits by critics who have long fought to keep the airport open.

Bond Debt High In Inside The move was so abrupt that 16 airplanes are stranded there, and may have to be trucked to another site. Even the Federal Aviation Administration was caught off guard, and had gotten an earful from aviation enthusiasts.

Bond Greenville Greenville "We were concerned to learn this morning of the decision to close Meigs Field," said Elizabeth Isham Corey, an FAA spokeswoman in Chicago. She said many aviation enthusiasts were upset, and "we share their concern [that] removing any centrally located airport only diminishes capacity and puts added stress on O'Hare and Midway."

Trading Stock And Bonds Corey said the action, while unusual, appears to be legal because all federal loans to build the facility have been repaid and the decision to keep it open lies with the city.

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Basis Bond Finance Hill Daley had reached an agreement with former governor George Ryan that would have kept the airport -- which was featured in films including "Home Alone" and "The Fugitive" -- open until at least 2026. National groups, including the National Air Traffic Controllers Association, the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association and the General Aviation Manufacturers Association, cited that agreement in their condemnations.

Bond Explained Terms Trading "The mayor has broken his promise not only to the citizens of his own city, but also to the pilots of America," AOPA President Phil Boyer said in a statement. "Past research indicates that the law hasn't been broken. However, we're not going to allow the mayor to hide behind the fiction of 'homeland security' for his reprehensible action."

Bond Business Investing Stock By Robert E. Pierre
Washington Post - 4/1/2003

Topic: Airplanes & Airports

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