{"id":13450,"date":"2019-08-05T18:09:35","date_gmt":"2019-08-05T18:09:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/?p=13450"},"modified":"2019-08-05T18:15:28","modified_gmt":"2019-08-05T18:15:28","slug":"illinois-presents-2019-airport-of-the-year-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/state-news\/illinois\/illinois-presents-2019-airport-of-the-year-awards\/%20","title":{"rendered":"Illinois Presents 2019 Airport of the Year Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Photo above &#8211; Primary Airport of the Year is Quincy Regional Airport. From left are Linda Schumm, Bureau Chief, Aviation Safety and Education, Division of Aeronautics; Kyle Moore, Mayor of Quincy; Sandra Shore, Airport Director, Quincy Regional Airport and Alan Mlacnik, Bureau Chief of Engineering, Division of Aeronautics.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Each year, the Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT)\nDivision of Aeronautics staff convenes to select a group of outstanding\nIllinois airports for special recognition. This year\u2019s airports being\nrecognized are; Quincy Regional Airport (Primary); Lake in the Hills Airport\n(Reliever); General Aviation Airport of the Year goes to Rochelle Municipal and\nEffingham County Airport; Cushing Field (Private \u2013 Open to the Public; and\nHeliport of the Year went to Ann &amp; Robert H. Lurie Children\u2019s Hospital of\nChicago. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/Childrensedit.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13452\" width=\"283\" height=\"182\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Childrensedit.jpg 636w, https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Childrensedit-300x194.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 283px) 100vw, 283px\" \/><figcaption> <em>Heliport of the Year is the Ann &amp; Robert H. Lurie Children\u2019s Hospital of Chicago. Pictured from left are Linda Schumm, Division of Aeronautics; Karen Arndt, Director of Interfacility Transport and Sheila Nally, Safety Coordinator, both with Ann &amp; Robert H. Lurie Children\u2019s Hospital of Chicago; and Alan Mlacnik, Division of Aeronautics. <\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Selections are based primarily on the following criteria:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 Cooperation, coordination and communication with the\nDivision of Aeronautics by the airport manager and their staff<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 Safety record of the facility<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 Promotion of seminars and aviation events<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 Promotion of aviation in general<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 Maintenance of the facility<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Congratulations to the 2019 winners!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo above &#8211; Primary Airport of the Year is Quincy Regional Airport. From left are Linda Schumm, Bureau Chief, Aviation Safety and Education, Division of Aeronautics; Kyle Moore, Mayor of Quincy; Sandra Shore, Airport Director, Quincy Regional Airport and Alan Mlacnik, Bureau Chief of Engineering, Division of Aeronautics. Each year, the Illinois Department of Transportation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":13451,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-illinois"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Quincy.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13450"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13461,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13450\/revisions\/13461"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}