Selig, Nicholas C.

Lost Ser.

To book a ride on the “World’s Shortest Airline”or learn aerial stunts from the redheaded widow of Lawrence Avenue, you’ve gotto go through the airports buried beneath the housing developments and shoppingmalls of Chicagoland. Many of these airports sprang up after World War I, whentraining killed more pilots than combat, and the aviation pioneers whodeveloped Chicago’s flying fields played a critical role in getting the nationready to dare the skies in World War II. Author Nick Selig has rolled wheels onhis fair share of Chicago’s landing strips but faces an entirely new challengein touching down in places being swallowed by a city and forgotten by history.