The front door of a small office building in Sycamore, Illinois. The RTA will file a lawsuit claiming United and American Airlines use tiny offices in remote Sycamore, Illinois, to purchase billions of dollars in aviation fuel for use at O'Hare and Midway in order to avoid paying higher Cook County sales taxes.
Sycamore, Illinois population sign. The RTA will file a lawsuit claiming United and American Airlines use tiny offices in remote Sycamore, Illinois, to purchase billions of dollars in aviation fuel for use at O'Hare and Midway in order to avoid paying higher Cook County sales taxes.
A view of the tiny office from which United Airlines buys billions in jet fuel in Sycamore, Illinois, in order to avoid paying Cook County's higher sales tax. | Art Golab~Chicago Sun-Times
A view of the tiny office from which United Airlines buys billions in jet fuel in Sycamore, Illinois, in order to avoid paying Cook County's higher sales tax. | Art Golab~Chicago Sun-Times
The RTA will file a lawsuit claiming United and American Airlines use tiny offices in remote Sycamore, Illinois to purchase billions of dollars in aviation fuel for use at O'Hare and Midway in order to avoid paying higher Cook County sales taxes.
A United Airlines jet at O'Hare. | AP
In a tiny office in rural Sycamore, next to a chiropractor and an attorney, United Airlines buys billions of dollars in jet fuel. But the jet fuel never gets anywhere near Sycamore, which is 100 miles west of Chicago. It goes to O’Hare, and that …
