Chicago Meigs Field Saves Lives (Daley the Fool)

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The Chicago Tribune reports (free registration required):

For the second time in slightly more than two weeks, an aircraft made an emergency landing Sunday at the now-closed Meigs Field, prompting renewed complaints from pilots that Mayor Richard Daley's decision to close the lakeside airport threatens the area's aviation safety.

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Green said the park district, which plans to start demolition of the rest of the runway within 30 days, has no plans to incorporate a long stretch of grass--for possible future emergency landings--into the design of a new lakeside nature preserve and park planned for the island.

To which I'd add: Isn't it patently obvious by now that Mayor Daley made the worst mistake of his career by trying to close Meigs Field? Not only is it the biggest waste of taxpayer dollars (which could go to actually building parks in places people need them, like Chicago's neighborhoods), people are going to die without it. (That includes the hospital patients waiting longer for transplant organs now that they have to travel more.) Idiot.

Also see this Chicago Sun-Times story.

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1. or you can add the

second worse is the "toilet bowl"
that used to be soldier field