O'Hare International Airport
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Chicago O'Hare International Airport (IATA: ORD, ICAO: KORD, FAA LID: ORD), sometimes referred to as Chicago O'Hare, or simply O'Hare, is a major international airport serving Chicago, Illinois, located on the city's Northwest Side, approximately 17 miles (27 km) northwest of the Loop business district. Operated by the Chicago Department of Aviation[4] and covering 7,627 acres (3,087 ha),[5][6] O'Hare has non-stop flights to 214 destinations in North America, South America, the Caribbean, Europe, Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Oceania, and the North Atlantic region as of November 2022.[7][8] As of 2023, O'Hare is considered the world's most connected airport.[9]
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Owner/Operator | Chicago Department of Aviation | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Serves | Chicago metropolitan area | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Location | O'Hare, Chicago, Illinois, U.S. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Opened | February 1944; 80 years ago (1944-02)[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Focus city for | Polar Air Cargo | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Elevation AMSL | 668 ft / 204 m | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 41°58′43″N 87°54′17″W | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Website | flychicago | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Designed to be the successor to Chicago's Midway International Airport, itself once nicknamed the "busiest square mile in the world," O'Hare began as an airfield serving a Douglas manufacturing plant for C-54 military transports during World War II. It was renamed Orchard Field Airport in the mid-1940s and assigned the IATA code ORD. In 1949, it was renamed after aviator Edward "Butch" O'Hare, the U.S. Navy's first Medal of Honor recipient during that war.[10][11] As the first major airport planned after World War II, O'Hare's innovative design pioneered concepts such as concourses, direct highway access to the terminal, jet bridges, and underground refueling systems.[12]
O'Hare became famous during the jet age, holding the distinction as the world's busiest airport by passenger traffic from 1963 to 1998; today, it is the world's second-busiest airport for passenger counts, serving 76 million passengers in 2021.[13] In 2019, O'Hare had 919,704 aircraft movements, averaging 2,520 per day, the most of any airport in the world in part because of a large number of regional flights.[14] On the ground, road access to the airport is offered by airport shuttle, bus, the Chicago "L", or taxis. Interstate 190 (Kennedy Expressway) goes directly into the airport. O'Hare is a hub for American Airlines and United Airlines (which is headquartered in Willis Tower),[15][16] as well as an operating base for Spirit Airlines.[17][18]