Featured in the O'Hare Corporate Outreach Program will be everything from high-level meetings between suburban CEOs and government officials to employee and vendor lobbying triggered via newsletters, paycheck stuffers and other internal office devices. One prominent foe of O'Hare expansion predicted the outreach program won't work.
Money can do a lot of things.
It may have a temporary effect. Chicago needs a third airport. It is inevitable. The Civic Committee of the Commercial Club long ago made know its desire to enlarge O'Hare. For instance, the club's recent Metropolis 2020 report, an update of the legendary Burnham plan for Chicago, calls for both a new runway and for land banking for the proposed airport in south suburban Peotone.