which airport is closest to the city of chicago?
Chicago Midway International Airport
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 In August 1919 , Hounslow Heath Aerodrome , in London , England was the first airport to operate scheduled international commercial services . It was closed and supplanted by Croydon Airport in March 1920 . In the United States , Bisbee @-@ Douglas International Airport in Arizona became the first international airport of the Americas in 1928 . 

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 Chicago 's main airport , O 'Hare International Airport is the second @-@ busiest airport in the world . The Chicago region is served by two other major commercial airports , Midway and Milwaukee 's General Mitchell International Airport , along with several smaller airports . The city is served by all major worldwide airlines , and O 'Hare is an international hub for both American and United Airlines , while Midway is a hub for domestic carrier Southwest Airlines . There is also a considerable network of rail lines and interstate highways in the region . Chicago has over 30 @,@ 000 hotel rooms in the immediate downtown area alone , and it has the largest skilled @-@ labor workforce in the US catering to conventions and other large @-@ scale media events . 

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 Chicago Municipal Airport , important to the war effort in World War II , was renamed Chicago Midway International Airport ( or simply Midway Airport ) in 1949 in honor of the battle . 

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 The airport 's open , rural location and higher altitude ( 240m vs. 85m ASL downtown ) results in lower temperatures , generally windier conditions and higher snowfall amounts than lower , built @-@ up areas of the city . One exception is on early spring afternoons ; when colder than air lake temperatures keep shoreline areas significantly cooler , under the presence of an east or north @-@ east onshore flow . 

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 Some locals wanted to keep Fornebu as a regional airport for the Oslo and Bærum area . The proposal was to keep part of the runway and terminals and allow aircraft such as the Bombardier Dash 8 , Fokker 50 and British Aerospace 146 to use the airport . Proponents argued that a similar role was filled by Stockholm @-@ Bromma Airport and Chicago 's Midway Airport . 
