Farmers Protesting Northpoint

Will County farmers hold anti-truck protest parade

 

Nope. That part of Will County(never mind the entire county as a whole) has always been hostile to anything transportation related(or anything industrial related)from the Peotone Airport proposal to Centerpoint. If someone so much as thought about building an outhouse there they would have council meetings on the issue,with the residents raising holy hell in the process!

 

It was the State that wanted to make the case for the proposed Peotone airport(or more appropriately, the TAX REVENUE that would’ve been generated had it been built).None of the airlines were interested because it was too far out from Chicago and lack of infrastructure. Nobody currently flies to Gary Chicago International Airport due to lack of interest (Gary’s stigma with a high crime and economic blight hasn’t helped things, in spite of the improvements made to the airport,including extending the main runway). Plus tax revenues from that airport would’ve gone to the cities of Gary & Chicago (and the State of Indiana respectively), leaving the State of Illinois SOL.And actually both O’Hare and Midway handle international traffic while Milwaukee is a little too far up north(90 miles from downtown Chicago) except for those who live near the Wisconsin state line, while Rockford (86 miles distant from Chicago) is too far out with no convienient commuter links to Chicago, save for maybe a Greyhound bus route (UPS uses it as a mini hub for their cargo flights though).Executive (old Palwaukee),DuPage and Aurora Municipal Airports can handle all the private traffic.

 

It should be noted that ironically Midway was looking at closure initially as expanding that airport was out of the question but with Midway Airlines,ATA and now Southwest Airlines using that airport as a hub its long term future is assured.