The Tribune has capably pointed out again that Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. has been fixating on that farm field in Peotone (Metro, May 10). This turf is excellent for growing corn and soybeans, but Jackson would like to fertilize it with billions of our tax dollars and grow an airport that we don’t need.
He sells it as a way to create jobs. What he doesn’t say is that this unimproved patch of Mother Earth will need an infrastructure. Power, water, sewerage and drainage must be funded, not to forget roads, expressway and tollway links and a vital rail link to downtown Chicago and the other area airports.
Without airline support and lacking a provable need, Rep. Jackson is hung up on job creation. Once his airport is built, the holders of all those jobs can live there. They won’t have to worry about noise from arriving and departing jets. There won’t be any.
