Airports
Chicago Midway Decommissioning Closed Runway 13L-31R
The project will add holding, parking, and deicing areas to what is now Taxiway H
Chicago Midway Airport
While Taxiway H is a closed runway, that runway was never fully decommissioned, but that is now happening, and Runway 13C-31C will be renamed Runway 13L-31R. © ForeFlight/FAA chart

Chicago’s Department of Aviation and the FAA have announced that Chicago Midway International Airport’s Runway 13L-31R will be formally decommissioned on June 12 and 13C-31C will be redesignated as 13L-31R. Runway 13L-31R was closed in 2023 and became Taxiway H, but the Runway 13C-31C designation for the former center runway didn’t change.

Although it appears a runway incursion on February 25 may have led to the decision to accelerate the formal decommissioning and renaming, the process began a year earlier with environmental reviews and permitting under a federal infrastructure project.

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