Waukegan National Airport | |||||||||||||||
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||||||
| Owner | Waukegan Port District | ||||||||||||||
| Serves | Chicago, Illinois | ||||||||||||||
| Location | Waukegan, Illinois | ||||||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 727 ft / 222 m | ||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 42°25′20″N 087°52′04″W / 42.42222°N 87.86778°W | ||||||||||||||
| Website | www.waukeganairport.com | ||||||||||||||
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Waukegan National Airport (IATA: UGN, ICAO: KUGN, FAA LID: UGN) is a public airport in Waukegan,[1] in Lake County, Illinois.[2] The airport is 40 miles (64 km) north of Chicago.[2] It was originally Waukegan Memorial Airport.[3] It has been operated by the Waukegan Port District since 1956.[citation needed] In January 2014 under a FAA reclassification of many small airports, the airport was renamed Waukegan National Airport[1][4]
The FAA's National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2009–2013,[5] categorized it as a reliever airport for Chicago O'Hare International Airport. Runway upgrades began in 2022.[1][6]
During the 2020 Kenosha unrest, US President Donald Trump flew into Waukegan on his way to assess the damage in Kenosha, Wisconsin.[7]
- ^ a b c d Waukegan National Airport. Waukegan Port District. Accessed 14 October 2009.
- ^ a b c FAA Airport Form 5010 for UGN PDF. Federal Aviation Administration. effective Jan 5, 2017.
- ^ Waukegan Memorial Airport, IL. Aviation Safety Network. Accessed 14 October 2009.
- ^ "FAA requires name change for Waukegan airport - Lake County News-Sun". Archived from the original on 2014-02-21. Retrieved 2014-03-29.
- ^ National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems (NPIAS): 2009-2013. Federal Aviation Administration. October 1, 2008.
- ^ "Waukegan Regional Airport".
- ^ "Column: Trump's Lake County stopover brief compared to other presidents". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 2022-07-05.