{"id":184037,"date":"2025-03-09T00:00:13","date_gmt":"2025-03-08T14:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/chicago-midway-worlds-busiest-airport-3-decades\/"},"modified":"2025-03-09T00:00:13","modified_gmt":"2025-03-08T14:00:13","slug":"how-chicago-midway-was-known-globally-for-3-decades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=184037","title":{"rendered":"How Chicago Midway Was Known Globally For 3 Decades"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While you may be familiar with <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/chicago-ohare-5th-most-romantic-airport\/\" >Chicago O&#8217;Hare International Airport<\/a> (ORD), you could be forgiven for forgetting about the city&#8217;s other major airport. <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/chicago-midway\/\" >Chicago Midway International Airport<\/a> (MDW). Midway is located on the city&#8217;s fringe and is a hub for Southwest Airlines. The airport, which caters to short flights from the city, was once the <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/midway-airlines-chicao-midway-airport-revival-history\/\" >world&#8217;s busiest airport for three decades<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Between 1930 and 1960, the airport was crowned the world&#8217;s busiest airport.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,3856,13240,408,606,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-chicago-midway","category-commercial-aviation","category-history","category-midway-international-airport","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=184037"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":184038,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184037\/revisions\/184038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=184037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=184037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=184037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}