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Originally Posted by HowardL
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Originally Posted by Chicago Shawn
After waiting years for FAA approval, Daley has promised to break ground on the project immediately.
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Daley ain't screwing around on this. From the Trib:
Race for expansion
Steve Hess with Heneghan Wrecking demolishes the Express Cargo Connection building to make way for the phase one expansion of O'Hare International Airport, Friday. Chicago's plan to expand O'Hare was approved by the Federal Aviation Administration Friday, setting off a race between workers starting site preparation for new runways and the lawsuits aimed at stopping them.
(AP photo by Charles Rex Arbogast)
Posted September 30, 2005 |
They have been demolishing buildings for about a year now on the northern fringe of the airport. Regaurdless of the outcome of the lawsuit, the northern runway will be built. We can thank the suburb of Des Plaines for this, because that community's clear thinking leaders know what an ecconomic engine O'Hare is and how much thier town has grown because of it. Des Plaines has been working side by side with the city on O'Hare expansion, and has volenteered to go out of its way to relocate businesses and hand the property over to the expansion commision. I have never felt so much love for my old home town.
The next door shitholes of Elk Grove Village and Bensinville should take note and follow in Des Plaines' footsteps. Of coarse, they are choosing the hard way, but in the end it will just fuck them over with the legal fees, which is why Bensinville got cought stealing money out of the park district treasury to finance the losing legal battle.