The story
Jointly owned by Prospect Heights and Wheeling under an intergovernmental agreement, it logged 108,203 operations in 2022 and opened an award-winning U.S. Customs facility that year.
Everything that was here
- 2006–present · still open
Chicago Executive AirportAirport
Renamed October 17, 2006, it is Illinois' fourth-busiest airport with 325 based aircraft.
See the map in 2007 → - 1928–2006
Palwaukee AirportAirport
Named for Palatine Road and Milwaukee Avenue in November 1928 and built into a business-aviation hub by George Priester.
See the map in 1929 → - 1926–1928
Gauthier's Flying Field / Swallow Airplane FieldAirport
A 40-acre farm airstrip named after one Swallow biplane.
See the map in 1927 →
Nearby history
Bob Chinn's Crab House
393 S Milwaukee Avenue · 2.2 km away
Le Francais
269 S Milwaukee Ave · 2.2 km away
Superdawg Drive-In (Wheeling)
333 S. Milwaukee Ave. · 2.5 km away
The second Superdawg, opened in 2010, brought Maurie and Flaurie's rooftop hot dogs to Wheeling with something the 1948
Kathryn's Banquets
600 River Rd · 2.9 km away
The last tenant before the barn came down.
Rob Roy Golf Course (River Trails Park District)
505 E Camp McDonald Road · 3.1 km away
A public 9-hole, par-36 course on 51 acres since the park district's 1989 purchase.
Don Roth's Blackhawk
61 N. Milwaukee Ave. · 3.7 km away
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