Meigs Field

single runway airport in operation in Chicago from December 1948 until March 2003
Place airport Q1749042
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Meigs Field

Summary

Meigs Field is an airport[1]. It ranks in the top 0.35% of airport entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (592 views/month, #27 of 7,663).[2]

Key Facts

  • Meigs Field is located in Cook County[3].
  • Meigs Field is located in Chicago[4].
  • Meigs Field is in the country of United States[5].
  • Meigs Field's image is recorded as Meigs Field-Chicago-Tower.jpg[6].
  • Meigs Field's instance of is recorded as airport[7].
  • Meigs Field's VIAF cluster ID is recorded as 130496337[8].
  • Meigs Field's IATA airport code is recorded as CGX[9].
  • Meigs Field's ICAO airport code is recorded as KCGX[10].
  • Meigs Field's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as no97058845[11].
  • Meigs Field's Commons category is recorded as Meigs Field[12].
  • +1948-00-00T00:00:00Z marks the founding of Meigs Field[13].
  • Meigs Field was dissolved in +2003-00-00T00:00:00Z[14].
  • Meigs Field's GNIS Feature ID is recorded as 427148[15].
  • Meigs Field's coordinate location is recorded as {'lat': 41.86, 'lon': -87.608611111111}[16].
  • Meigs Field's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0j9xk[17].
  • Meigs Field's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Meigs Field[18].
  • Meigs Field's place served by transport hub is recorded as Chicago[19].
  • Meigs Field's Commons gallery is recorded as Meigs Field[20].
  • Meigs Field's GeoNames ID is recorded as 4902023[21].
  • Meigs Field's date of official opening is recorded as +1948-00-00T00:00:00Z[22].
  • Meigs Field's patronage is recorded as {'amount': '+133605'}[23].
  • Meigs Field's patronage is recorded as {'amount': '+153647'}[24].
  • Meigs Field's patronage is recorded as {'amount': '+86483'}[25].
  • Meigs Field's patronage is recorded as {'amount': '+91343'}[26].
  • Meigs Field's patronage is recorded as {'amount': '+108822'}[27].

Body

Geography

Meigs Field is in the country of United States[5]. Located in include Cook County[3], a county of Illinois[28], in United States[29], founded in 1831[30] and Chicago[4], a city of Illinois[31], in United States[32].

Designation and Status

Meigs Field's instance of is recorded as airport[7].

History and Context

+1948-00-00T00:00:00Z marks the founding of Meigs Field[13].

Why It Matters

Meigs Field ranks in the top 0.35% of airport entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (592 views/month, #27 of 7,663).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 7 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[33] It is known by 7 alternative names across languages and contexts.[34]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [5] . wikidata.org.
  2. [6] . wikidata.org.
  3. [7] . wikidata.org.
  4. [3] . Geographic Names Information System. wikidata.org.
  5. [4] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . Geographic Names Information System. wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . web.archive.org. web.archive.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . web.archive.org. web.archive.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . web.archive.org. web.archive.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . web.archive.org. web.archive.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . web.archive.org. web.archive.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [28] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [29] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [30] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [31] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  5. [32] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [33] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [34] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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