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2. Midway International Airport - Wikipedia

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   Chicago Midway International Airport ( IATA: MDW, ICAO: KMDW, FAA LID: MDW) is a major commercial airport on the Southwest side of Chicago, Illinois, located approximately 12 miles (19 km) from the city's Loop business district. Established in 1927, Midway served as Chicago's primary airport until the opening of O'Hare International Airport in ...

3. Illinois Air National Guard - Wikipedia

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   This was the first home of the 108th Observation Squadron, the oldest unit in the Illinois Air National Guard. The original 16 officers and 74 enlisted men were mostly World War I veterans from Chicago, flying PT-1 aircraft. From this small contingent grew a major operation that moved to Midway Municipal Airport.

4. Southwest Airlines Flight 1248 - Wikipedia

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   Southwest Airlines Flight 1248 was a scheduled passenger flight from Baltimore, Maryland, to Chicago, Illinois, continuing on to Salt Lake City, Utah, and then to Las Vegas, Nevada. On December 8, 2005, the airplane slid off a runway at Midway Airport in Chicago while landing in a snowstorm and crashed into automobile traffic, killing a six ...

5. TWA Flight 529 - Wikipedia

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   TWA Flight 529 was a Lockheed Constellation L-049 propliner, registration N86511, operating as a scheduled passenger service from Boston, Massachusetts to San Francisco, California. On September 1, 1961, at 02:05 CDT, the flight crashed shortly after takeoff from Midway Airport ( ICAO: KMDW) in Chicago, killing all 73 passengers and five crew ...

6. Clearing, Chicago - Wikipedia

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   Chrysler Village is on the eastern edge of the Chicago neighborhood of Clearing nestled between Midway Airport and the Clearing Industrial District. Beginning at Lavergne Avenue on the east and extending to Long Avenue on the West the sturdy brick single family, duplex and townhouse homes surround Lawler Park and were constructed in 1943 during World War II to house the Chrysler Defense Plant ...

7. Chicago Rockford International Airport - Wikipedia

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   The third-busiest Chicago airport in Illinois, the Rockford Airport served 103,000 passengers in 2021. [7] RFD is among the fastest-growing cargo airports in the world. The Airport specializes in cargo operations; processing over 3.4 billion pounds (1.5 million tonnes) of cargo, the airport is the 14th-busiest cargo airport in the United States ...