Runway 9L-27R (Chicago, Illinois)

USA / Illinois / Des Plaines / Chicago, Illinois
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Opened in November, 2008. Measures 7500' x 150'. Equipped with Category III Instrument Landing Systems (ILS) and ALSF2 approach light systems on both ends.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O'Hare_International_Airport#Runways
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Coordinates:   42°0'10"N   87°54'46"W

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  • Runway 9L/27R is now open. BTW, it's a 15-minute taxi to the gate if you land way out there.
  • This is the first of four entirely new east-west runways planned for O'Hare. From 1960 until this runway was opened in 2008, whenever visibility or clouds were low, the airport could only accommodate simultaneous landings on two runways. Now aircraft can arrive in triple parallel on 27L/27R/28 or, more rarely, on 10/9L/9R. Departures can be performed on tangent cross runways. The next runway to open, in 2011, will be new 10C-28C just south of existing 10-28. Runways 14L-32R and 14R-32L, the 1960s backbone of the airfield, are planned for eventual decommissioning.
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