Chicagoist: Judge Clears Way For O'Hare Demolitions

fed up

Sat, 09 Aug 2008 10:33:41 -0600

What happened to that 400 million dollar defict. The city has money or an airport expansion that the airlines dont even support. Ohare has had thousands fewer flights than last year.

mikely1

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 13:55:21 -0600

Air travel is beginning its descent. The world is going to get bigger again for all of us as the price of oil increases and airlines cut back service and raise prices. If the city really wanted to invest in a transit infrastructure for the future, we'd team up with other nearby cities to build high-speed rail. Surely dealing with the NIMBY factor for rail can't be as bad as wiping out entire towns. Right now, Amtrak takes a back seat to freight in Chicago -- it's a joke. This runway ggarbage is more about handing out contracts than investing in the future. I find it disturbing how Chicago can just gobble up towns. Ohare itself, on the city's map, is basically in the shape of a balloon -- the airport's the cirle and the expressway is the string leading back to the city. I thought the days of annexing suburbs was over but I guess as long as Little Big Man's in charge, cemetaries can be relocated and towns destroyed even though there are other airports nearby that could expand.

matilda

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 11:29:37 -0600

Too bad for Bensenville. The greater good should triumph, for reasons Chicago D gives. (Then again, I wonder what the crumbling of the current airline-industry business model will mean for a bigger O'Hare.) Man, I hate it when I agree with Daley. Shower time.

Chicago D

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 11:25:37 -0600

Honestly, to preserve the tax payer money being wasted in fighting off Bensenville's suit it probably would have been better had the bulldozers rolled at midnight. I understand why the communities in the way of this expansion are upset, but I just don't see it being prevented. Frankly, for the economic health of the entire region, I do not want it prevented. O'Hare is a huge source of employment (direct and indirect) and ensuring that it remains an important transportation link is vital to the Chicagoland area.

Prescott Carlson

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 10:22:17 -0600

Good thing Daley is in China, or the bulldozers would have probably rolled at midnight last night.

jg

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 10:00:37 -0600

senseless

jg

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 10:00:05 -0600

The area is a ghost town now. It's a little late to fight this. The houses and businesses are vacant, boarded up and deteriorating. I can understand why they wouldn't want the expansion but the deal is done. At this point it is a senselless fight on the part of Bensenville.