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Robbins Airport was built after the closure of the Acres Airport, the only Chicago-area airport that serviced black pilots. It was constructed by the Challenger Air Pilots' Association, a group of 15 to 20 black aviators that included pilots Cornelius Coffey , John C. Robinson , Janet Bragg , Earl W. Renfroe , and Harold Hurd, on the site of an ...
Originally named Chicago Air Park, [8] Midway Airport was built on a 320-acre (130 ha) plot in 1923 with one cinder runway mainly for airmail flights. In 1926, the city leased the airport and named it Chicago Municipal Airport on December 12, 1927. [1] By 1928, the airport had twelve hangars and four runways, which were lit for night operations ...
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.
The airport is operated by the Chicago Department of Aviation [4] and covering 7,627 acres (11.92 sq mi; 30.87 km 2). [ 5 ] [ 6 ] O'Hare has non-stop flights to 249 destinations in North America, South America, the Caribbean, Europe, Africa, Asia, the Middle East and the North Atlantic region as of Summer 2024.
Ashburn Flying Field was the first airport built, after the 1911-established aerodrome named Cicero Flying Field closed in April 1916, to serve Chicago, Illinois. [1] It opened in November 1916 in Ashburn, a community at the southwest corner of Chicago. [2]
On October 17, 2006, Palwaukee Municipal Airport was renamed Chicago Executive Airport. In October 2015, Cincinnati-based Ultimate Air Shuttle announced plans to begin service from the airport to Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport in January or February 2016. [7] In late 2021, the airport received $1.1 million to make facility ...
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] The airport is owned by the Village of Schaumburg and is just south of the Schaumburg Municipal Helistop. [1] [3]
DuPage Airport is located on what used to be sheep-grazing land. In 1927, two Chicago entrepreneurs purchased the land and began barnstorming, using the field as a grass strip. In 1941, the U.S. Navy requisitioned DuPage Airport, built brick hangars, paved two runways in an “X” pattern and began training pilots for the war effort.