ANN Special Feature: Friends of Meigs Spokesman Josh Levy on Chicago's Meigs Settlement With the FAA 09.20.06
Chicago Mayor Richard Daley has settled with the FAA over the destruction of Meigs Field. The city will pay a $33-thousand for destroying the airport without giving the FAA 30-days' notice... and will repay $1 million in aviation funds used to destroy the airport on Northerly Island. As you might remember... Meigs was destroyed on Daley's command in the middle of a March night three-and-a-half years ago. The aviation world was outraged... especially by the fact that Daley used FAA grant money to do it. Under the deal struck Monday... Chicago can't pay the fine out of its aviation fund. The Daley administration didn't admit doing anything wrong in settling with the FAA. But it did settle what could have been a long, drawn-out legal process where a Daley win was by no means certain. While the Chicago Sun-Times suggests Daley's critics consider the Meigs misadventure his "Waterloo," Daley himself apparenlty doesn't agree. He told the paper three years ago he thinks destroying Meigs to build a park on Northerly Island is the greatest thing he's ever done. Josh Levy would disagree. Josh speaks for an organization dedicated to restoring Meigs Field on Northerly Island.
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