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RAF Oakley. An old airfield building of the former RAF Oakley surrounded by corn. / 51.78250°N 1.07500°W / 51.78250; -1.07500. RAF Oakley is a former Royal Air Force satellite station between Oakley and Worminghall, Buckinghamshire, England. It was located in a flat, damp wooded area.
Merrill C. Meigs Field Airport (pronounced /mɛgz/) ( ICAO: KCGX, FAA LID: CGX) was a single-runway city airport in Chicago that was in operation from 1948 to 2003, when it was bulldozed overnight by then-mayor Richard M. Daley. The airport was located on Northerly Island, an artificial peninsula on Lake Michigan adjacent to downtown Chicago ...
Fort Sheridan, Highwood, Illinois (closed 1993) Fort Arlington, Arlington Heights, Illinois. Green River Ordnance Plant. Haley Army Airfield. Joliet Army Ammunition Plant, Joliet, Illinois. Rock Island Arsenal, Rock Island, Illinois. Savanna Army Depot, Savanna, Illinois (Closed circa 2000)
Naval Air Station Glenview. / 42.09056°N 87.82250°W / 42.09056; -87.82250. Naval Air Station Glenview or NAS Glenview was an operational U.S. Naval Air Station from 1937 to 1995. Located in Glenview, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago, the air base primarily operated training aircraft as well as seaplanes on nearby Lake Michigan during ...
In use. 1940-present. During World War II, the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) established numerous airfields in Illinois for training pilots and aircrews of USAAF fighters and bombers. Most of these airfields were under the command of First Air Force or the Army Air Forces Training Command (AAFTC) (A predecessor of the current-day United ...
Chicago O'Hare International Airport. / 41.97861°N 87.90472°W / 41.97861; -87.90472. Chicago O'Hare International Airport ( IATA: ORD, ICAO: KORD, FAA LID: ORD) is a major international airport serving Chicago, Illinois, United States, located on the city's Northwest Side, approximately 17 miles (27 km) northwest of the Loop business ...
Gary/Chicago International Airport ( IATA: GYY, ICAO: KGYY, FAA LID: GYY) is a joint civil-military public airport in Gary, in Lake County, Indiana, United States. It is three miles northwest of the city center [ 2 ] of Gary, and 25 miles (40 km) southeast of the Chicago Loop. It is operated by the Gary/Chicago International Airport Authority ...
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 ...