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October 3rd 04, 03:44 AM
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David Lesher wrote: And why did Meigs *not* have this constraint? According to AOPA articles, "In 1994, Daley announced plans to close the airport and build a park in its place on Northerly Island. He could do that because of a unique FAA grant agreement that gave him an "escape clause." While most federal grants to airports specify that the airport must remain open 20 years, the Meigs grant obligated the city to maintain the airport only for the length of its lease for the land. Northerly Island was owned by the Chicago Park District, which refused to renew the airport lease in 1996. Without the federal obligation in place, the airport became private property." George Patterson If a man gets into a fight 3,000 miles away from home, he *had* to have been looking for it. 
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