diff --git a/CHANGELOG.rst b/CHANGELOG.rst
index f1d9791e17c2..9fbef2e88d9f 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.rst
+++ b/CHANGELOG.rst
@@ -26,7 +26,9 @@ Removed
   specific functions for each plot type (#2325).
 - International documentation of outdated readme etc (#2302)
 - Removed deprecated options in execute, transpile, and assemble. Removed deprecated compiler. 
-  Removed deprecated qcvv in tools. Removed deprecated converters qobj_to_circuits and circuits_to_qobj (#2301)
+-  Removed deprecated qcvv in tools. Removed deprecated converters qobj_to_circuits and circuits_to_qobj (#2301)
+- The previously deprecated ``qiskit._util`` module has been removed. Use
+  ``qiskit.util`` instead. (#2329)
 
 `0.8.0`_ - 2019-05-02
 =====================
diff --git a/qiskit/_util.py b/qiskit/_util.py
deleted file mode 100644
index 1a4302d4a12f..000000000000
--- a/qiskit/_util.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,23 +0,0 @@
-# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
-
-# This code is part of Qiskit.
-#
-# (C) Copyright IBM 2017, 2019.
-#
-# This code is licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. You may
-# obtain a copy of this license in the LICENSE.txt file in the root directory
-# of this source tree or at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.
-#
-# Any modifications or derivative works of this code must retain this
-# copyright notice, and modified files need to carry a notice indicating
-# that they have been altered from the originals.
-
-# pylint: disable=wildcard-import,unused-wildcard-import
-
-"""Compat shim for backwards compatability with qiskit.util."""
-
-# The 'qiskit._util' module is deprecated and has been renamed
-# 'qiskit.util'. Please update your imports as 'qiskit._util'
-# will be removed in Qiskit Terra 0.9.
-
-from qiskit.util import *