If you’re one of the thousands of people who has held out hope for a reopening of Meigs Field, the beautiful lakefront airport that was conveniently located on Lake Michigan in downtown Chicago, we’re sad to announce that there will likely never again be an airport on Northerly Island. The city of Chicago is holding an opening ceremony for Northerly Island Park on Friday, more than 12 years after bulldozers dug up the runway at Meigs.
A 5-acre lagoon now cuts through the center of the peninsula where airplanes used to land on Meigs’ 3,900-foot-long runway. A walking/biking path winds around several hills that have been contoured into the formerly flat open fields.
