FAA Great Lakes Region

About FAA Great Lakes

The Great Lakes Region administers the airports of the Midwest manufacturing belt and the Upper Midwest, anchored by Chicago O'Hare and a deep bench of medium hubs that serve cross-border traffic to Canada. The FAA assigns each airport in the United States to one of nine administrative regions; this region's office at Des Plaines, IL handles airport certification, safety inspections, federal-grant coordination, and overall coordination with the air-traffic-control facilities physically inside its territory.

For travelers, the most useful thing to know about a region is which of its airports is the closest hub for the trip you are planning, and which secondary or regional airports could spare you a longer drive to the major hub. The featured airports below cover the largest gateways inside the Great Lakes Region, and the state list below that gives you a way to drill into every public-use airport the region covers.

States & territories in the Great Lakes region

Featured airports inside the Great Lakes region

Region totals