WHY IS WAUKEGAN EXPANDING ITS AIRPORT?

[Danno]

JB1346-- I feel when I read your posts that somebody just turned on an Eisenhower-era infomercial. I'm not sure if the runways are being engineered to handle larger aircraft or are being enlarged. I heard that they were being "expanded". The point being is that I don't care about this revenue source and that there are 100 local jobs there. They say that there are local jobs at the lakefront until those workers show up at city hall and they all live in Wisconsin or Libertyville or Lake Bluff.

What I care about is our quality of life in Waukegan. We don't need our airport to expand, we don't need Suzy and Senator Link's friends to benefit at our expense. This isn't about the local guy in his Cessna. This is about the corporate and fat-cat jets that are increasingly landing here and runway reengineering that will allow more jet traffic to fly in and out of Waukegan.

We don't need more aircraft landing and taking off over our heads and homes at all hours of the night. We don't need more aviation noise disrupting sleep/home/school and aircraft exhaust settling down into our kids lungs.

We just need the airport to be what it was when it was granted authority to operate: a small local concern. NOT a friend-of-the Links DuPage County Airport white elephant.

The Links no longer care about the regular guys that Terry claims to be.

Lets see how many Link for Senate signs will appear the next election cycle. His last run looked to be of an old worn horse.

If you support a system which places money at the highest level of that society then why should you be shocked, surprised or even concerned when something turns out to be all about the money?