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January 18, · 1929 WILMETTE LIFE 39 ---:------- ·- Number 9 of a Series on *Metropolitan Chicago - showingwhyMet· rof>olita1l Chicago has tWfY j)ossibility of btcomi1lg th't world's foremost Metropolitan untCT -in pof>ulation as wdl as i'n hade imf>ortance- and that in a day atively near. n'· METROPOLITAN ClflCAGO- · .... ·. HUB OF AMERICA'S AIRWAYS anyone doubts that air travel is today an established and important factor in American transportation, let him but study the heavy lines on the above map. Daily scheduled mail, express and passenger service is now being operated over 16,486 miles of airways in the United States, and the planes in service over these airways travel 38,902 miles daily, of which 20,098 miles are scheduled to and from Chicago. United States. In December,. 1928-a winter month -landings and take-offs during daylight hours wen. made at this field on an average of almost every three minutes! Chicago now has thirty-six ~heduled arrivals and departures. of mail, passenger and express planes every . day, a number exceeded only at Tempelhof Airport, Berlin, Germany. The Chicago Municipal Airport was officially opened just a year ago last December. Yet it is expected that the present field will be outgrown before next summer is over. Already .plans have been made to double the area of the field, affording quadrupled accommodations. In addition to the Municipal Airport, Metropolitan Chicago has more than. a dozen other active aviation fields .. A proposal is now receiving .considera· · tion, and appears like I y of adoption, for the building of another airport on· the lake front at Sixteenth Street, just ten minutes distant from the Loop .·. Chicago's position with reference to air transportation is another important factor adding to Chicago's progress toward becoming the world's greatest metropolitan center. · Travel by air has logically established its hub in *Metropolitan Chicago, the great central metropolis, close to the geographic centers of population, manufacture and agriculture. Chicago is the world's foremost railroad center, the world's largest inland port, and the central link in America's vast chain of motor highways- -affording unequalled facilities for interconnection between air and other transportation. The volume of air mail and express handled in Chicago is more than double that handled in any other city, and Chicago's Municipal Airport [at Sixty- third Street and Cicero Avenue] is the busiest commercial airport in the This snw em Mebof>olitan Chicago,.whc'n completed, will be bouftd in hool&let form. Addrw PuW.k S.nriu of Northern flli'nois.72 W. Adams St., Chicoeo. cmd a CDfry wiU be Tutroed for )IOU. TheTa wtU be u chaTec. Com._"' ·PUBLIC SERVICE COMPANY OF NORTHERN ILLINOIS Suf'Plying Elutricity and Gas . tO 6,000 square mila, imludin& the Metropolitan .Area into which Chiaato is crowine. .) ·Mcho,ohta1l CJalcaao Ctadudu the CUy of CJatcaao 41lcl the tcrrUofY wUhita SO to 75 mUu of the Chlcaao CUy Hall.