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Transportation investment discussed at 10/28 CSEDC quarterly forum
Steve Young presented the results of IDOT and Federal Aviation Administration economic impact studies that predict nearly a $41 billion –...
Nov 3, 2016


IDOT official says South Suburban Airport ‘still alive’
Illinois Department of Transportation Division of Aviation’s interim director Steven Young at the Chicago Southland Economic Development...
Oct 31, 2016


Crestwood to get its own ZIP code
A spokeswoman for the U.S. Postal Service confirmed Friday that the village had returned enough surveys supporting the ZIP code. The...
May 9, 2016


State pays hefty price for condemning airport land
It was the first land acquisition case for the airport that went to a jury trial and the latest of the 110 parcels acquired within the...
Dec 17, 2015


Judge says IDOT can still take land for South Suburban Airport
Circuit Court Judge Susan O’Leary denied a request by the owners of three sites who are fighting the Illinois Department of...
Jun 15, 2015


Local filmmaker creating airport documentary
When he graduated from Southern Illinois University in 2002 with a degree in cinema and photography, there was a big push for the...
May 14, 2015


Editorial: South Suburban Airport needed to regain aviation market
U.S. House Rep. Robin Kelly addresses the media at Bult Field, future site of the South Suburban Airport. In 2000, O’Hare and Midway...
Apr 13, 2015


FAA says South Suburban Airport will have “minimal impact” on O’Hare, Midway
Kelly said the FAA gave copies of the report to herself and Illinois’ two U.S. Senators. The report states air traffic created by the new...
Mar 19, 2015


Create an ‘aerotropolis’ for the Southland with the South Suburban Airport
Singapore’s Changi Airport – Photo courtesy of vintage.johnnyjet.com Airports will shape business location and urban development in the...
Mar 3, 2015


Will Co. official says IDOT’s airport land buys not costing local districts
The county’s supervisor of assessments, Rhonda Novak, told the county board’s airport committee last week that the taxing bodies receive...
Oct 9, 2014


IDOT pitchs South Suburban Airport to potential partners and investors
…IDOT’s timeline for the airport project has it continuing to acquire land while awaiting approval from the Federal Aviation...
Sep 25, 2014


Gov. Pat Quinn courts the Southland at Chamber luncheon
Quinn used a Chicago Southland Chamber of Commerce luncheon to express his interests in the south suburbs. “We don’t want this region...
Sep 9, 2014


Tribune editorial: Time to build Peotone Airport or walk away
Peotone has been the designated site for a new regional airport for more than 20 years. On paper. Not a single spade of dirt has turned....
Aug 26, 2014


Governor Quinn Announces Next Phase of South Suburban Airport Development
Following Bult Field Purchase, Upcoming Forum Will Help Guide Historic Project to Revitalize South Suburban Region and Create Thousands...
Aug 7, 2014


IDOT’s Airport Aquisition Of Rudis And Bult Properties ‘A Game-Changer’
The $900,000 purchase, coupled with the $34 million acquisition of the 288-acre Bult Field property near Monee just two weeks earlier,...
Jul 17, 2014


State buys Bult Field for $34 million
That’s $32.5 million more than the state could have paid for the 288 acres about 10 years ago. Jim Bult, a wealthy and idiosyncratic man,...
Jul 2, 2014


Rauner is a skeptic on suburban airport
The candidate for governor made the comments while appearing on Rockford radio station WXIX’s “The Low Budget Morning” show…Please click...
Jun 12, 2014


Southland lawmakers urge approval of South Suburban Airport
From left: State Reps. Marcus Evans, Larry Walsh Jr., Sen. Toi Hutchinson, State Rep. Will Davis, U.S. Rep. Robin Kelly, State Rep. Al...
Feb 12, 2014
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