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Durbin: 5 Ill. airport towers get closure reprieve

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Senator Dick Durbin

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U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin says control towers at five small airports in his home state of Illinois are among the 149 nationwide that the Federal Aviation Administration is keeping open for now.The towers are all operated for the FAA at low-traffic airports and were to close by mid-June as the result of government-wide automatic spending cuts imposed by Congress. They'll now remain open at least through September, the end of the federal budget year.