Express yourself on airport expansion

Since the major complaint against Chicago Executive Airport expansion is noise pollution, the FAA is giving $2.5 million for sound proofing nearby homes to the airport. I can easily see that those same homes and businesses could be the very ones they later condemn for airport expansion. More wasted tax dollars.

Since the airport is landlocked by surrounding neighborhoods, businesses and major streets, don't think land grabs can't occur. Ask Bensenville where their neighborhoods went and how they moved Irving Park Road for the O'Hare expansion. Ask Elk Grove Village and Bensenville how their property values have gone due to noise and air pollution from the airport.

Fight now and have your voice heard. Until Dec. 19, please write your no to the expansion and the reasons why to ChiExec.com/CEA-master-plan-contact-us/ site. All your answers will be part of public record. Keep close tabs on future elective candidates and where they stand on this issue before voting for them. Preserve our way of life and prevent increased air and noise pollution guaranteed to occur if the Chicago Executive Airport extends its runways and facilities. The tax benefit to us will be nonexistent when we lose all the tax dollars from grabbed lands that will no longer generate property taxes to our towns.

Do you think the corporate jets that come to this airport have our small towns as their destinations? No way. They head to Chicago and spend their dollars there. Don't buy what the airport expansion committee are selling as benefits. They distort the dollar amounts we will get and don't mention the lost income from land grabbed.

Now is the time to get your opinion in.

Cynthia Huitink

Prospect Heights