Chicago's Midway Airport: The First seventy-five Years by Christopher Lynch Lake Claremont Press Phone: 773/583-7800 www.lakeclaremont.com

In 1997, Monarch Air Service, a family-run aviation business based at Chicago's Midway Airport was sold, after 70 years in business. Sheila O'Carroll Lynch the only child of Monarch's founder, Pierce "Scotty" O'Carroll decided to commemorate this end of an era for her family by stitching this quilt.

Since the sale of the family business, much has changed at the airport. Plans were drawn up, and construction for a state-of-the-art new terminal for Midway began in 1997. This quilt then is a snapshot of an era that exists only in memory, and on this website.

In June, 1997, on the last day before Monarch Air Service was sold, some of the Lynch siblings took one last ride around the airport. The following short essays, written by Christopher Lynch, describe this farewell tour around the field.

• Monarch's New Hangar

• Landing

• Butler and Monarch

• North Side of the Field, and Midway Airlines

• Old Terminal

• Take off at Runway 31

• Monarch South: A Lively Hangar

• National Guard Hangar

• Skyline and Runways

• Old Army Hangar

• Jet Fuel Memories

• West Ramp

• Farewell