[1] The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2023–2027 categorized it as a non-hub primary commercial service facility.

Airlines returned service as travel picked up and after receiving money from the federal CARES Act to prop up flights.

[9] In 2021, the airport received $3 million in funding from the State of Illinois to upgrade facilities during the travel downturn caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.

[1][14] In the year ending July 31, 2022, the airport had 25,915 aircraft operations, average 71 per day: 64% general aviation, 20% military, 15% air taxi, and 2% commercial.

For the same time period, 93 aircraft were based at the airport: 69 single-engine and 6 multi-engine airplanes, 12 jets, 4 helicopters, 1 glider, and 1 ultralight.

Air Illinois flew BAC One-Elevens (to St. Louis and Chicago) and also served the airport with Hawker Siddeley HS 748s, Handley Page Jetstreams and de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otters.

Air Illinois HS 748s flew nonstop among other routes to the now-closed Meigs Field on the lakefront next to downtown Chicago.