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3 unusual facts about James Philip


DuPage Airport

:Philip, the patron of DuPage airport, helped push forward a disastrously expensive enterprise which included land purchases making it four times the size of Midway Airport, a $10 million terminal, a $14 million golf course, and a charter airline run by the airport.

James Philip

In June 1984, Philip, then the Republican minority leader of the Illinois House of Representatives, helped push through legislation authorizing the construction of a tollway, Interstate 355, then referred to as simply the DuPage Tollway.

Richard S. Williamson, President Ronald Reagan's chief of intergovernmental affairs, and former Chairman of the Illinois Republican Party, deemed Pate "one of the most important Republicans in the Midwest".



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