Neighbors have started a campaign to save a 1927 building near Midway Airport in the wake of a Chicago City Council voted last fall to acquire it and three other properties. City aviation officials say the buildings are expected to be torn down and converted into green space after the Federal Aviation Administration designated them unsafe due to their nearness to Midway Airport.
O'Hare International Airport, which was the world's busiest airport from 1961 through 1997, remained stuck in the No. 2 spot last year in the U.S. as measured by the number of flights, the Federal Aviation Administration said Thursday.
Seventy-four thousand transportation and construction workers who were idled by a partial shut-down of the FAA will be going back to work.
After battling over the debt ceiling, Congress went on vacation, and left some work unsettled. Without an agreement on funding for the Federal Aviation Administration, the agency was forced to furlough more than 4,000 employees across the country.
