Description
To book a ride at the “World’s Shortest Airline” or be told aerial stunts from the redheaded widow of Lawrence Avenue, you have to go throughout the airports buried beneath the housing developments and shopping department shops of Chicagoland. Many of those airports sprang up after World War I, when training killed more pilots than combat, and the aviation pioneers who developed Chicago’s flying fields played a essential role in getting the nation able to dare the skies in World War II. Creator Nick Selig has rolled wheels on his fair proportion of Chicago’s landing strips but faces an entirely new challenge in touching down in places being swallowed by a city and forgotten by history.