Meigs Field

It’s been more than two decades since then-Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley ordered large X’s carved into the runway, rendering it unusable.

The destruction of this hugely popular Chicago airport has become a battle cry for general aviation airports.

I didn’t know who McPherson was, but I knew I hated him. There, scrawled into the schedule, smack dab in the middle of the weekend I had planned for a flying vacation, was a two-hour block of time during which he had reserved the flying club’s Cessna 172. I thought I had planned far enough […]