Similar to Burke, Chicago operated Merrill C. Meigs Field on fill in Lake Michigan from 1948 to 2003. Mayor Richard J. Daley infamously ordered the airport runway dug up under cover of darkness, and today it is Northerly Island, a park anchored by Adler Planetarium on its north end. | Date: 1963 | Source: University of Illinois at Chicago. Library. Special Collections and University Archives Department (Richard J. Daley Library)Download Original File
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University of Illinois at Chicago. Library. Special Collections and University Archives Department (Richard J. Daley Library)
