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Merrill C. Meigs Field Airport was a single-strip airport, which operated from December 1948 until March 2003, on Northerly Island, an artificial peninsula on Lake Michigan; Northerly Island also was the site of the Century of Progress (1933–34) in Chicago. Meigs Field airport was closed when the mayor of Chicago, Richard M. Daley, ordered the landing strip destroyed with bulldozers, without the thirty-day warning required by the regulations of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). Meigs Field airport was opened on 10 December 1948, and, by 1955, had become the busiest single-strip airport in the U.S. The latest air traffic tower was built in 1952 and the terminal was dedicated in 1961. The airfield was named for Merrill C. Meigs, publisher of the ''Chicago Herald and Examiner'' and an aviation advocate. Northerly Island, owned by the Chicago Park District, is the only lakefront structure to be built based on Daniel Burnham's 1909 Plan of Chicago. The island was to be populated by trees and grass for the public enjoyment by all. However, drafted less than six years after the Wright brothers' historic flight, the 1909 plan did not envision any airports for Chicago. The airport was a familiar sight on the downtown lakefront. It was also well known as the default takeoff field in many early versions of the popular ''Microsoft Flight Simulator'' software program. It is an airport that is featured in Microsoft's ''Midtown Madness'' computer game (1999) and Reflections' ''Driver 2'' video game, which are based in Chicago.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Midtown Madness Home and Garden - DealTime.com )〕 The airport area is also the central location of the short documentary film ''Powers of Ten'' by Charles and Ray Eames. The Main Terminal Building was operated by the Chicago Department of Aviation and contained waiting areas as well as office and counter space. The runway at Meigs Field was nearly . In addition, there were four public helicopter pads at the south end of the runway, near McCormick Place. The north end of the runway was near the Adler Planetarium. ==History== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Meigs Field」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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