Twenty years ago, Mayor Richard M. Daley shut down Chicago’s third airport — Merrill C. Meigs Field. A wrecking crew used bulldozers to carve giant X’s into the airstrip late on March 30, 2003. The ...

When the sun came up over Chicago on March 31, 2003, it shone down on six large Xs that were bulldozed overnight into the runway of a small downtown airport. Under the cover of darkness, then-Mayor ...