CHICAGO (AP) -- The federal government has provided Illinois with $3 million in funding for the next phase of engineering and planning for an airport near the Chicago suburb of Peotone, Gov. George ...

Gary can supply the region with short regional flights and cargo flights and build this traffic up You need to correct your article about the number of homes destroyed by the proposed Peotone airport.

MONEE, Ill. (AP) — Illinois officials will host a forum in September for industry experts to help develop the planned airport in Chicago’s south suburbs. Gov. Pat Quinn announced the forum Thursday.

SPRINGFIELD — Despite concerns that Illinois taxpayers could be financing an expensive boondoggle, the Quinn administration continues to move forward with plans to build a third Chicago-area airport.

CHICAGO -- The Federal Aviation Administration has given its preliminary approval to Gov. George Ryan's proposal for a third Chicago-area airport at south suburb Peotone, according to a published ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Not even on the job yet, new Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta may have dampened the hopes of supporters of a third Chicago-area airport who saw an ally in the new Bush ...

MATTESON, Ill. (AP) -- Plans to build a third Chicago area airport in south suburban Peotone received a mixed but polite review Thursday during a public hearing on the proposal's environmental impact.

The idea of an airport in Peotone, located in the rural exurbs 44 miles south of Chicago, has been debated for decades. The proposal was revived in this year's Illinois budget, with $162 million ...

If ever there was a clear-cut measure of human folly–among contractors, politicians, planners, pressmen, and their electronic-media counterparts–the proposed airport in Peotone would well exemplify ...