Web Extra: Jesse Jackson Jr. 2001
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On Feb. 26, 2001, Jesse Jackson Jr. made an impassioned argument for a Peotone airport.
On February 26, 2001, Jackson Jr. appeared on Chicago Tonight to lay out his impassioned argument for a new airport in Peotone, Illinois. The airport, Jackson argued, would provide thousands of jobs to economically disenfranchised residents on Chicago’s South Side and the south suburbs.
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Web Extra: Jesse Jackson Jr. 2001
Clip: 8/13/2013 | 1m 33s
On February 26, 2001, Jackson Jr. appeared on Chicago Tonight to lay out his impassioned argument for a new airport in Peotone, Illinois. The airport, Jackson argued, would provide thousands of jobs to economically disenfranchised residents on Chicago’s South Side and the south suburbs.
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