Backers of urban and rural sites for a third major airport seizedon a consultant's study Wednesday to promote their proposals anddiscredit their competition.
Supporters of the three rural sites - near Kankakee, Peotone andBeecher - said the study by TAMS Consultants strengthened their handbecause it showed those sites would serve about the same number ofpassengers as urban sites in Gary and near Lake Calumet in Chicago.
The TAMS study, released to a committee of the bi-state siteselection team, estimated that each of the five locations would serveabout 30 million passengers a year by 2020. If Midway Airportclosed, as the city proposes, the urban sites would each …
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