November 15, 1931 – Chicago Airport, today’s Midway International Airport,
opens in ceremonies held in front of the new $100,000 passenger terminal at
Sixty-Second Street and Cicero Avenue.
The head of the Illinois Aeronautics Commission, Reed G. Landis,
presents Mayor Anton Cermak with the state’s first state airport license. Also on hand are M. C. Meigs, the chairman of
the Chicago Aero Commission and Walter Wright, the city’s superintendent of
parks and aviation, the man who led the construction of the $774,000
airport. The highlight of the event is
the demonstration of the use of radio in flight as Pilot S. J. Nelson of United
Airlines flies over the airport and broadcasts a message that can be heard over
the terminal’s public address system. At
the conclusion of the ceremony Mayor Cermak takes his four grandchildren on a
plane ride, courtesy of Century Air Lines.
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Incorrect, the photo is the dedication of the new terminal building in 1931. The airport itself had been in use since 1923 as Chicago Air Park. In 1927 it became Chicago Municipal and in 1949 became Chicago Midway Airport. (KMDW)
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