: About Me

The debate over whether Chicago needs another airport has raged since the early 1960's I remember at the end of my senior year in high school in 1966, the guidance counselor was helping students plan for jobs at the new airport near Beecher Illinois. It was still under debate at the time, and hadn't even gone into its current, perpetual planning stage. However, the preferred site was to be in the Beecher-Peotone area, about 40 miles south of Chicago. There was never any serious talk of anywhere else. The original plan was as the brainchild of a man named Everett Klipp, who owned land in th...