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Al Capone dove for the floor when he saw the flash of the camera, while his startled body guards drew their guns. The actress Miriam Hopkins ran screaming from the camera while Lyndon Johnson ran towards it. General Jimmy Doolittle called him a Son of a Bitch, while the Pope called him his friend. Bob Hope asked if he would escort Hope's wife to church, and John Barrymore asked if he would hide him from his mistress. Cary Grant demanded a shoe shine, Eleanor Roosevelt demanded an apology, and Harry Truman demanded a bourbon. Who was this guy? He was Mike Rotunno, and he was a photographer for one of Chicago's newspapers. Yet, he also photographed airplanes for the airlines, starting in the 1920's, the beginning of his 50 year career at Chicago's Midway airport. In that span he got to know everyone, great or small, and his story is like a cross between the movie The Terminal"" and ""Forrest Gump."" He introduced movie stars to baseball players, Marilyn Monroe to a room full o.""

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Christopher Lynch has spent most of his life around Chicago's Midway Airport, where his family ran Monarch Air Service, a fixed-based operator that serviced aircraft for more than six decades. Founded by his grandfather, pioneering pilot Pierce ""Scotty"" O'Carroll, it was one of the oldest continuously operating family aviation businesses in the country when it was sold in 1997. A graduate of Lawrence University with a BA in history and religious studies, Chris also has a private pilot's license. He is the author of Chicago's Midway Airport: The First Seventy-five Years, which was published in 2002 by Lake Claremont Press. His website is www.midwayhistory.com.

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