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 Corporation’s quarterly meeting on 10/28 at Bult Field

The sign at the entrance to Bult Field, the small general aviation airport situated among the farm fields of southeast Will County, welcomes visitors to “The Future Site of the South Suburban Airport.”

While that statement might seem to have missed the apparent dormancy into which that project, along with other major transportation projects in Illinois, has fallen, state transportation officials insist the airport is moving forward…Please click here to read Andrew Steele’s story in the Times.