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Midway International Airport (MDW/KMDW) (Chicago, Illinois)

USA / Illinois / Stickney / Chicago, Illinois / South Cicero Avenue (Illinois Route 50), 5700
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5700 South Cicero Avenue
Chicago, IL 60638
(773) 838-0600
www.flychicago.com/midway/en/home/Pages/default.aspx

Chicago Midway International Airport is an international airport on the southwest side of Chicago, Illinois, eight miles (13 km) from the downtown Chicago. Dominated by low-cost carrier Southwest Airlines, Midway is the Dallas-based carrier's largest "focus city", as of 2013. Both the Stevenson Expressway and the Chicago Transit Authority's Orange Line provide passengers access to Downtown Chicago. Midway Airport is the second-largest passenger airport in the Chicago metropolitan area, as well as the state of Illinois, after O'Hare International Airport on the Northwest Side.

Originally named Chicago Air Park when it opened in 1923, mainly for airmail flights. In 1926 the city leased the airport and named it Chicago Municipal Airport on December 12, 1927. In July 1949 the airport was renamed after the Battle of Midway. Midway was running out of room and could not handle the 707 and DC-8 jets that appeared in 1959; every Chicago jet flight had to use O'Hare, which had opened to the airlines in 1955.

During the 1950s, before the rise of O'Hare, Midway was the world's busiest airport and a hub of the U.S. airline system. United Airlines was headquartered at Midway and American Airlines was based at Midway until it moved its headquarters to New York City in the mid-1930s. As of 2016, Southwest Airlines is the dominant passenger airline for Midway, with Delta Air Lines, Volaris, and Porter Airlines as the only other airlines with scheduled commercial passenger service.

IATA: MDW / ICAO: KMDW / FAA LID: MDW

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Coordinates:   41°47'11"N   87°45'2"W