Merrill Church Meigs /mɛɡz/ (November 25, 1883 – January 26, 1968) was the publisher of the Chicago Herald and Examiner in the 1920s.

Inspired to become a pilot by Charles Lindbergh's solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean, he became a booster of Chicago as a world center of aviation.

[3] While at the college, he would also be the campus correspondent for the Chicago Herald and Examiner, of which he would become the executive later in his life.

During World War II, Meigs served on the Office of Production Management as the aircraft expert.

[2]: 158  Fifty-five years after the renaming, Meigs Field was demolished by order of then-Chicago mayor Richard M. Daley.