Another Chicago airport? Plans for a Peotone airport are back, this time with an e-commerce spin.

Plans for a south suburban airport began in the 1980s, and the Illinois Department of Transportation started buying land surrounding the Will County site in 2002. The state owns about 5,000 acres for the airport — almost all of the proposed 6,000-acre “inaugural footprint” for the airport, said Rick Bryant, senior advisor to Congresswoman Robin Kelly, a Chicago Democrat and airport proponent. (www.chicagotribune.com) Más...