That might save a few zillion pounds of paper and a pretty penny in postage. If you think it costs a bundle to fly to Chicago now, you ain't seen nothing yet. Moreover, no traveler wants to drive more than an hour to get to an airstrip in the middle of nowhere. And Peotone, in which I spent a year one weekend, is nowhere. That's not an insult.
Nowhere care be fun.
There's less traffic and hassle, and usually fewer politicians. Sure, one might guess an airport would increase Peotone's service economy. Decades ago, something similar worked in Las Vegas when they plopped casinos in a desolate desert. But there wasn't another casino an hour away.