Air carrier Captain reported no NOTAM was issued for runway painting and closing at MLI airport. ATC stated to the pilot that MLI does not issue NOTAMs for runway painting and closing.

Narrative

We were operating the flight to MLI under day VFR conditions. The ATIS indicated that runway 9 was in use; but since the winds were light I asked the FO/ PM to request 27 since that would make for a shorter flight; which is consistent with our policy to request the such when available. Quad Cities approach informed us that runway 9/27 was closed for painting and would not reopen for 30 minutes; and asked if we could accept runway 13. I will note that our flight was on-time and arrived very close to our scheduled arrival. Knowing that I had reviewed the NOTAMS on the dispatch release but fearing that I had missed a big one; I had the FO query them about the NOTAM status. Approach control informed us that no NOTAM had been issued for this closure; even though it was a preplanned closure; and that it is the policy of the airport is not to issue NOTAMS for this kind of thing.We got performance numbers for 13; determined that we could use it; set up for; briefed and flew the visual approach to 13 and landed without further incident. At the gate I phoned dispatch to advise them of the closure; and they confirmed that they had no knowledge of it. Sugestions: 9/27 is the main runway at MLI. If a preplanned closure of that runway at the scheduled arrival time of a 121 operator isn't worthy of a NOTAM; then I'm not sure what is. Clearly this should have been a NOTAM.