The Latest Breaking News from Midway

TSA officers stopped 72 handguns from making it through security checkpoints at O’Hare Airport, and 50 firearms were seized at Midway Airport.

As of 6 p.m., O’Hare airport had recorded about 1.9 inches of snow and Midway about 1.6 inches, according to the National Weather Service.

Before Brereton Jones was elected Kentucky governor as a Democrat in 1991, he was lieutenant governor, and before that, a Republican delegate in the West Virginia state legislature.Before those years in politics – and afterwards – he was a horseman, the owner and operator of Airdrie Stud, near Midway in…

An Illinois State Police air patrol traced a laser pointer flash to a home in Berkeley. Saul Martinez Castanon, 36, was charged with two counts of disorderly conduct. Airline pilots had reported encountering lasers in the area.

Some users of flight tracking apps noticed one flight that seemed too unusual to be true: A 20-mile United Airlines flight from O’Hare to Midway on Monday. It was just the airline repositioning a charter flight.

His “Flight Patterns” mural at 59th Street and Central Park Avenue makes it seem the real tree is sprouting from the painted tree trunk. And check out the birds.

Jamire Hollingshed and Robert Lewis were arrested after agents from the Drug Enforcement Administration learned they were planning to fly into Midway on May 2.

O’Hare, Midway and other airports are already taking on the cargo-handling Peotone’s backers want. The state Senate should reject a proposal promoting a plan that should be grounded.

Presiding over her last City Council meeting on Wednesday, Mayor Lori Lightfoot introduced an ordinance empowering Aviation Commissioner Jamie Rhee to negotiate new, more “limited relief” for O’Hare and Midway concessionaires.