The Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT) has locked in another 90 acres of land within the footprint of the so-called Peotone Airport.
The $900,000 purchase, coupled with the $34 million acquisition of the 288-acre Bult Field property near Monee just two weeks earlier, could mean that the long-stalled and much-opposed airport really is going to happen.
One of the airport’s most indefatigable adversaries, Carol Henrichs, said last week that she feels “the fight is over…” Please click here to read Karen Haave’s story in the Peotone Vedette.