Lost Airports of Chicago
Nick Selig has been a teenage Civil Air Patrol cadet; army aviation mechanic; civilian general aviation mechanic; Piper Cub flight instructor; instrument flight instructor and maintenance manager for a well-known nationwide flight school; charter, freight and corporate pilot; and airline maintenance technician for twenty-one years. The best job he has ever held has been as the husband of a female pilot he met at Pal-Waukee Airport in the 1960s. As weekend flyers in their 1948 Stinson Flying Station Wagon, they came to realize that most of the small airports in the Chicago area had faded away without any fanfare but had played an important role in our nation's history. Selig decided to give them some recognition before they were completely forgotten. As you stroll through your local shopping mall, housing development or industrial park, you may be walking on a former airfield. Heads-up!