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Mayor Craig B. Johnson of Elk Grove Village writes a letter in response to an editorial supporting Mayor Richard Daley's O'Hare expansion plan. The mayor expresses that the plan would negatively impact Elk Grove Village by losing jobs and reducing the tax base, shrinking safety zones, and increasing noise, air, and ground pollution from low-flying jets on extended runways. Neither the Bensenville nor Elk Grove Chambers of Commerce have endorsed the Daley Plan. The mayor represents the concerns of 35,000 residents and 3,800 businesses in Elk Grove Village that have lived in harmony with O'Hare Airport for 50 years, and Daley's plan would change this relationship.

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Hfaircraigjohnsonletter

Mayor Craig B. Johnson of Elk Grove Village writes a letter in response to an editorial supporting Mayor Richard Daley's O'Hare expansion plan. The mayor expresses that the plan would negatively impact Elk Grove Village by losing jobs and reducing the tax base, shrinking safety zones, and increasing noise, air, and ground pollution from low-flying jets on extended runways. Neither the Bensenville nor Elk Grove Chambers of Commerce have endorsed the Daley Plan. The mayor represents the concerns of 35,000 residents and 3,800 businesses in Elk Grove Village that have lived in harmony with O'Hare Airport for 50 years, and Daley's plan would change this relationship.

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- Saturday, September 8, 2001

 : Craig B. Johnson , Mayor, Elk Grove Village.

I am writing in response to "Beyond the O'Hare rah-rah" (Editorial, Aug. 27). Mayor Richard
Daley's O'Hare expansion plan carries considerable consequences for ElkGrove Village residents and
businesses.To Elk Grove, the plan means losing jobs, reducing our tax base, shrinking safetyzones,
causing roadway gridlock, increasing noise, air and ground pollution, having low-flying jets due to
extended runways and a host of other concerns.Elk Grove's concerns are real.Ronald Hawley, co-owner
of an Elk Grove Village company and a former chairman of the Elk Grove Chamber of Commerce, was
named in your editorial as someone to lookfavorably upon in support of O'Hare expansion. Neither the
Bensenville Chamber of Commerce nor the Elk Grove Chamber of Commerce has endorsed the Daley
Plan, andthe Bensenville chamber supports the Peotone Airport. Both chambers represent nearlyhalf of
the Greater O'Hare membership. So just whom does Ron Hawley represent? Of course he doesn't mind
if Elk Grove businesses are lost to the proposed expansion aslong as it isn't his business.

I represent 35,000 residents and 3,800 businesses. Ron Hawley represents himself,and his small
business, with no concerns about the Elk Grove community. Elk GroveVillage lived in harmony with
O'Hare Airport for 50 years due to our planning for thecurrent configuration of the airport. Now Mayor
Daley desires to change the basic fabricthat made O'Hare a compatible neighbor. His plan calls for
pointing two new runways atElk Grove Village. These runways negate our long-planned buffers.

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