Talk:Meigs Field

message: I personally loath the the "in popular culture" sections on Wikipedia since they tend tend to be both wrong and dominated by anime, scifi, and fantasy references.  ("Harry Potter uses a wand made of wood", as xkcd aptly put it.)    Meigs Field was where you took off in subLOGIC (now Microsoft)'s Flight Simulator  20:38, 22 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: "In Popular Culture"

message: Does anyone have information on who Merrill C. Meigs was?
Slathering 02:31 12 Jul 2003 (UTC)
Info on Meigs added, along with a bio of him on separate page.
shsilver
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Someone added 'illegaly' to the statement that the mayor bulldozed X's in the runway.  Is that true?  Can someone provide supporting evidence?  If no evidence turns up, I'll delete the word. -- Ansible
It was against Federal Aviation Rules (FAR's). The city paid a fine as noted in the article. I don't believe they'd have been fined if everything was above board and legal. This wasn't exactly some minor pesky technicality. The city is very lucky someone didn't make an insturment approach to a fog shrouded Meigs airport early in the morning before the tower was scheduled to open. Chicago Approach controllers do not appear to have been informed the airport was closed until someone tried to land there. Thankfully they could see the damage done and didn't plow into equipment or cartwheel on the trenches cut into the runway. Use of the word illegal therefore is neither POV or inappropriate. Skywayman 22:02, 22 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Merrill C Meigs

message: Since Meigs is gone, should this article be moved to Northerly Island, which currently redirects to Meigs Field? — goethean ॐ 02:27, 11 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  move? 

message: There are too many fact tags in the Closing of Meigs Field section. There doesn't need to be a reference for every sentence about the closing.
* then please reference the statements. it's wikipedia policy to reference your sources. anything that is disputed and not backed up can be removed at any time... so it's really just a courtesy to flag the statements and give people a chance to back em up. Randella 02:43, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Section on closing is disputed 

message: The importance of Meigs to the medical professional is overstated in the article. Most major hospitals in Chicago have helipads. This article reads as though it were authored by a member of "Friends of Meigs Field". A reference is needed for the statement: "The Chicago lakefront flight corridor has a history of near-misses and mid-air collisions.". You may also want to add the number of crashes that occurred around Meigs by planes leaving Meigs, if only for completeness. -mktnc
:We need to find a secondary source either way, but note that hospital helipads are useful only in good, clear weather and fairly calm winds, and that they're higher risk, since the helicopters have to operate so close to buildings and people — you need an airport for 24/7 medevac service, even if the patient is in a helicopter. David 21:09, 15 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Overstated

message: This article was automatically assessed because at least one WikiProject had rated the article as start, and the rating on other projects was brought up to start class. BetacommandBot 15:33, 29 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  WikiProject class rating

message: Who is Daniel Burnham? This is a fragment of a thought that should be fleshed out or deleted  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Andyberks (talk • contribs) 02:04, 13 August 2013 (UTC)
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message: Does anyone know whether the reason why Chicago mayor Richard M. Daley forced the closing of Meigs in 2003 by ordering the overnight bulldozing of its runway and converting the airport into another sort of park without notice, in violation of Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) regulations, because of aircraft noise restrictions?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Clrichey (talk • contribs) 00:18, 16 February 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: Why?