Vanished Airfields

A researcher called the Archives looking for information on the defunct Chicagoland Airport, once located in the Half Day/Lincolnshire area. After checking the news clipping files and finding only a couple of references, I remembered a website I had stumbled across doing research on the Haley Army Airfield at Fort Sheridan.

The website Abandoned and Little Known Airfields is a fantastic source of information on airports that have vanished throughout the country. Indeed, the site had a good deal of information, maps, and aerial photos about the former Chicagoland airport located at Route 45 and Half Day Road. 

The airfield began as a U.S. Navy flight training airfield in 1945, known as Half Day Naval Outlying Landing Field.

The airfield was first known as Chicagoland Airport in 1948. It closed in about 1978.

Aerial view of Chicagoland Airport, circa 1960. Bess Bower Dunn Museum, 2006.16.

Post updated 10/8/2024