Northerly Island (Chicago, Illinois)

USA / Illinois / Chicago / Chicago, Illinois / South Linn White Drive, 1521
 park, artificial island
Northerly Island is a Chicago Park District park located on Lake Michigan.

Northerly Island is a part of the Burnham Plan for Chicago. The other islands were never built.

It hosted the 1933-1934 Century of Progress World's Fair. The southern two thirds of the island is the former home of Meigs Field airport, which was closed by Mayor Richard M. Daley in 2003. See: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meigs_Field For many years Meigs has been the start location of the MS Flight Simulator series.

August 2006, has an outdoor music venue operated by Clear Channel.

www.chicagoparkdistrict.com/parks/Northerly-Island/
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northerly_Island
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Coordinates:   41°51'36"N   87°36'32"W

Comments

  • Meigs airport was illegaly demolished under the cover of darkness with the cameras covered or blinded while the airport was torn up under the order of Mayor Richard M. Daley
  • Meigs Field will always be remembered by me as the home airport in the early versions of Flight Simulator. It was always nice taking off with the skyline to the west and the lake to the east.
  • why don't we develop it for something OTHER than parks or condos, what about a sports facility? I think that's what they're gonna do if we get the Olympics
  • Lisa: "He said it was just a name!" Man: "What he meant is that Northerly Island is actually a peninsula."
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