"We make the point that these costs are related to the removal of airport infrastructure and environmental remediation. It's not in the public interest for a municipality to leave behind an abandoned airport.... We used the revenue carefully. It was not used for redevelopment or urban renewal." Source: Chicago Law Department spokeswoman Jenny Hoyle, as quoted by the Chicago Sun-Times, after her bosses filed a 43-page brief with the FAA admitting Chicago used FAA airport funds to destroy Meigs Field. Chicago faces a $33,000 fine for not giving the FAA 30-days notice before the midnight destruction of the airport on Northerly Island. But, if found to have misappropriated FAA funds, the city could be liable for up to $4.5 million in fines.