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Thursday, March 13, 2014

It's an Ohio and Chicago Meigs Thing-- Part 1

From Wikipedia.

Yesterday, I wrote about Fort Meigs and was wondering if the former Meigs Field in Chicago and Fort Meigs in Perrysburg, Ohio, might be named for the same person.

They weren't.

Meigs Field in Chicago, a small civilian plane airport on Northerly Island off the shoreline, was named for Merrill C. Meigs (1883-1968), publisher of the Chicago Herald and Examiner and early aviation proponent who reportedly taught Harry Truman how to fly.

Meigs Field existed from 1948 to 2003, when then-Mayor Richard M. Daley had it razed under cover of the night.

--Brock-Perry

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