Except
The cemetary is not only in a different town, it's in a completely different county.
It's flabbergasting to give one city the right to do whatever they want over another city's land.
On top of that, Daley has gone on record multiple times saying that he won't expand Midway Airport because of the impact upon the airport's neighbors. NOTE: Midway is completely within Chicago's city limits, while O'Hare required some pretty fancy manuevering years ago to steal it away from the suburbs that completely surround it.
And Daley and the Cook County Democrats have been fighting against the creation of a third airport approximately 50 miles south of the city. They claim that it would interfere with the other two airports' operations. In reality, they don't want it outside of their political control (patronage jobs, sweetheart no-bid contracts, etc.)
lincoln
"Chicago to my mind was the only place to be. ... I above all liked the city because it was filled with people all a-bustle, and the clatter of hooves and carriages, and with delivery wagons and drays and peddlers and the boom and clank of freight trains. And when those black clouds came sailing in from the west, pouring thunderstorms upon us so that you couldn't hear the cries or curses of humankind, I liked that best of all. Chicago could stand up to the worst God had to offer. I understood why it was built--a place for trade, of course, with railroads and ships and so on, but mostly to give all of us a magnitude of defiance that is not provided by one house on the plains. And the plains is where those storms come from." -- E.L. Doctorow
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