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An excerpt from the Chicago Tribune story surrounding Meigs. Note that
the
guy who killed the legislation which would have guaranteed Meigs'
survivial
is NOT a Democrat. Nope, both parties are working together to ground
us...
...after which they'll have more room for their chartered jets:
Separately, a spokeswoman for Gov. Rod Blagojevich said the governor
also was not told of Daley's plans, but supported the mayor's decision to
close Meigs as a matter of public safety.
Daley originally intended to close the airport in February 2002 and turn
it into a park and nature preserve, but he held off doing so to win
then-Gov. George Ryan's support for federal legislation backing the $6.6
billion expansion of O'Hare International Airport.
Under terms of a deal reached with Ryan in December 2001, Daley agreed to
keep the lakefront airport open until Jan. 1, 2026, although Meigs could
have been closed anytime after Jan. 1, 2006, by a vote of the General
Assembly.
The deal was supposed to have been solidified in federal legislation
endorsing the O'Hare expansion.
But U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin, an Illinois Democrat, earlier this month
declared the federal bill dead because of opposition from his Republican
counterpart, U.S. Sen. Peter Fitzgerald.
Asked about that deal at today's news conference, Daley replied,
"There is no agreement whatsoever."
"The agreement is not in existence. There's no federal
legislation," Daley said
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