 On September 17, 2006, the city dropped all legal appeals and agreed to pay the $33,000 fine as well as repay $1 million in misappropriated FAA Airport Improvement Program funds that it used to destroy the airfield and build Northerly Island Park.By August 2003, construction crews had finished the demolition of Meigs Field.Northerly Island is now a park that features prairie grasses, strolling paths and a giant pond.