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This is a list of airports in Illinois (a U.S. state), grouped by type and sorted by location.It contains all public-use and military airports in the state. Some private-use and former airports may be included where notable, such as previously public-use airports, those with commercial enplanements recorded by the FAA or airports assigned an IATA airport code.
Schaumburg Regional Airport (FAA LID: 06C) is a public use airport located 22 nautical miles (41 km; 25 mi) northwest of Chicago [1] in the village of Schaumburg in Cook and DuPage counties, Illinois, United States. [2]
Module:Location map/data/United States Chicago metropolitan area is a location map definition used to overlay markers and labels on an equirectangular projection map of Chicago metropolitan area. The markers are placed by latitude and longitude coordinates on the default map or a similar map image.
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The South Cargo Area was relocated in the 1980s from the airport's first air cargo facilities, located east of the terminal core, where Terminal 5 now stands. Many of the structures in this new cargo area then had to be rebuilt, again, to allow for the OMP and specifically runway 10R/28L; as a result, what is now called the South Cargo Area is ...
The airport opened in 1925 as Gauthier's Flying Field. It was named Pal-Waukee in November 1928 because of its location near the intersection of Palatine Road and Milwaukee Avenue. In 1953, the airport was purchased by George J. Priester, who developed the airport over the next 33 years, installing paved runways, lighting, hangars, and an air ...
The airspace is commonly depicted as resembling an "upside-down wedding cake". The innermost ring extends from the surface area around the airport to typically 10,000' MSL. Several outer rings usually surround it with progressively higher floors to allow traffic into nearby airports without entering the primary airport's Class B airspace.
A cafe named for Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, the location of the Wright brothers' first flight, is also located at the airport. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] DuPage Airport sits on 1,200 acres (490 ha), and is the only general aviation airport in Illinois with four active runways, two ILS approaches, a 24-hour FAA air traffic control tower, and over 40 ...