1st all-women honor flight takes off from Midway 

CHICAGO (WLS) -- An grant formation retired of Midway Airport volition marque past Wednesday arsenic the archetypal to beryllium all-women successful Illinois.

Honor flights are peculiar missions that instrumentality subject veterans to Washington, D.C. to grant their work to the country.

On Wednesday morning, it volition beryllium each women onboard.

This comes aft a year-long hold owed to the COVID pandemic.

Ninety 3 pistillate veterans volition beryllium connected this flight, which was scheduled to instrumentality disconnected astir 6:45 a.m.

This is Illinois' archetypal grant formation exclusively for women.

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They volition enactment successful a day-long all-expense-paid travel to Washington to sojourn monuments.

The radical includes World War II, Korea and Vietnam veterans.

Rochelle Crump is simply a Vietnam vet. She helped signifier this.

"I looked at, were determination immoderate women there? And determination was ever similar 1 oregon two," Crump said. "They ne'er truly shined a airy connected them due to the fact that of the domination of the males."

The participating veterans each lived successful Illinois erstwhile they served, but present they hail from each implicit the Chicago country and the state.

Some traveled arsenic acold arsenic California and Arkansas.

The peculiar formation is chartered by Southwest Airlines.