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A museum, a mayor and a road: How Lake Shore Drive became a runway ... intentionally
Published 6 months, 3 weeks ago
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Lake Shore Drive has served as a makeshift runway for emergency landings. But it’s also been an intentional runway for planned arrivals. We go back to 1983 to get the story of how a Chicago institution helped turn our lakeside expressway into an airstrip, at least twice.