[1rudeboy]

""He’s a multi-millionaire. He can fly anyplace he wants in the country. This guy’s a multi-millionaire and you’re listening to him. He doesn’t live in Chicago. I don’t want to call him elitist, but it is. He has a jet. He has all these planes and all these toys. And he doesn’t understand this economy is tough with people and that lakefront belongs to us."

"And if I want to illegally-bulldoze an airport at midnight, stranding dozens of airplanes, I will. I'm the mayor."

[CrazyIvan]

“And if I want to illegally-bulldoze an airport at midnight, stranding dozens of airplanes, I will. I'm the mayor.”

Nothing elitist about that, right?

[Excellence]

My favorite Harrison Ford quote is, “The greatest threat to human rights is economic opportunity.” Having said that, he is correct on Meigs Field. He could, and should, make a movie about that, with the bulldozers coming in and carving big Xs in the runway. I bet he could make it a good movie.

[MediaMole]

I wonder how many jobs were lost after Miegs Field was destroyed?

The mayor didn’t care about the guys who weren’t able to get their planes out after he carved up the runway.