Local police officers and a cemetery more than 100 years old may be the only things stopping Chicago from carrying out the largest public works project in our nation's history.
Police in Bensenville and Elk Grove Village have been guarding their village borders from surveyors hired by Chicago to map out hundreds of homes and businesses the city hopes to seize from the two towns for an expansion of O'Hare International Airport. The $15 billion estimated cost of the expansion is up from $6.3 billion in 2001 and does not include billions of dollars of roadwork around the airport.
Meanwhile, lawyers have been arguing over the legality of the city's plan to move the 1,300-grave St. Johannes Cemetery, which lies at the west edge of the airport in unincorporated DuPage County and in the path of a proposed runway.
The Heartland Institute
Police in Bensenville and Elk Grove Village have been guarding their village borders from surveyors hired by Chicago to map out hundreds of homes and businesses the city hopes to seize from the two towns for an expansion of O'Hare International Airport. The $15 billion estimated cost of the expansion is up from $6.3 billion in 2001 and does not include billions of dollars of roadwork around the airport.
Meanwhile, lawyers have been arguing over the legality of the city's plan to move the 1,300-grave St. Johannes Cemetery, which lies at the west edge of the airport in unincorporated DuPage County and in the path of a proposed runway.
The Heartland Institute
