Northerly Island Park

This guide to Northerly Island Park in Chicago starts with the landfill dredged into Lake Michigan between 1920 and 1925, ground Daniel Burnham had sketched into his 1909 plan for the lakefront. It follows the site through the 1933 Century of Progress World's Fair and its rocket-shaped sky ride, and into the 1948 conversion to Meigs Field, the country's busiest single-runway airport. Mayor Richard Daley later sent bulldozers onto that runway on a March night in 2003, without telling the city council.