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

Sheila O'Carroll Lynch grew up at Chicago's Midway Airport. As the only child of pilot Pierce "Scotty" O'Carroll, who had a flying business called Monarch Air Service at the field, Sheila spent many days of her childhood at the airport, so much, in fact that her children joke that every photo of her as a little girl has an airplane in it.

Sheila's has reminisced about her unusual childhood on the WTTW Chicago Stories program "Midway Airport: Crossroads to the World", which first aired in October, 2001. A transcript of her interview can be read at the Chicago Stories website. Her memories of the field were also documented in Citytalk , as well as the book Midway Airport: The First 75 years. The author did not have trouble talking to Sheila, since she is this historian's mother.

The Midway Quilt, designed and stitched by Sheila, is obviously not a literal snapshot of the airport, but rather an interpretation of the airport through the eyes of the Lynch family. Monarch Air Service, which began in 1932, was sold in 1997. The quilt preserves the memories of the family as the airport was during Monarch's tenure.