Chicago O’Hare International Airport ORD

 

Chicago O’Hare International Airport, commonly referred to as O’Hare Airport or simply O’Hare, is Chicago’s major airport located approximately 17 miles NW of Downtown Chicago. Operated by the Chicago Department of Aviation (CDA), O’Hare (ORD) is United Airline‘s major hub as well as an important hub for American Airlines.
For many years, O’Hare was America’s busiest airport before Atlanta’s Airport (Hartsfield-Jackson) took over the position. O’Hare is still the nations fourth busiest international gateway behind John F. Kennedy International Airport JFK, Los Angeles International Airport LAX and Miami International Airport MIA.
The airport was built between 1942 and 1943 as a manufacturing plant for Douglas airplanes during World War II. When the company decided to concentrate its airplane production on the west coast (after its contract expired in 1945), the facility was chosen by the City of Chicago as the location for a future airport to meet future aviation demands (considering Midway was slowly becoming too small and crowded).
Operating at first as Orchard Field Airport (thus the IATA code ORD which is still used today), the airport was renamed O’Hare International Airport in honor of Lieutenant Commander Edward “Butch” O’Hare, a naval aviator in the US Navy killed during World War II.
To ensure the airport was contiguous with the City of Chicago, so the city would have it under its control and, therefore, benefit from the huge tax revenue, O’Hare was connected to Chicago in 1950 through a strip of land about 200 feet wide that runs along Higgins Rd from Des Plaines River to the airport.
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