CHICAGO β Chicago aldermen have taken a big step to make the city's O'Hare and Midway airports among the most breast-feeding friendly airports in the nation.
On Friday morning, the City Council's finance committee voted to recommend an ordinance that would require the airports to provide rooms where mothers can breast feed and use breast pumps.
The two airports each have one breast-feeding room but the ordinance calls for at least one lactation room at all airport terminals. The measure will go to the full City Council in September.
A study by the journal Breastfeeding Medicine has found that only a small percentage of the nation's airports have lactation rooms.
The aldermen said they'd also consider similar ordinances to require lactation rooms at train stations and other large buildings in the city.
