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O’Hare International Airport
Chicago O'Hare International Airport , sometimes referred to as, Chicago O'Hare, or simply O'Hare, is the main international airport serving Chicago, Illinois, located on the city's Northwest Side, approximately northwest of the Loop business district. Operated by the Chicago Department of Aviation and covering ,, effective December 30, 2021. 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. As of 2022, O'Hare is considered the world's most connected airport. Designed to be the successor to Chicago's Midway International Airport, itself 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 " ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
O'Hare, Chicago, Illinois
O'Hare, located on the far north side of Chicago, is one of the city's 77 Community areas in Chicago, community areas. O'Hare International Airport is located within the boundaries of this community area. This community area is the only one that extends outside Cook County, Illinois, Cook County; the western edge (an area comprising the southwest part of the airport) is in DuPage County, Illinois, DuPage County. The area is a transportation hub containing O'Hare International Airport as well as major roads such as Interstate 90, its auxiliary Interstate 190 (Illinois), Interstate 190, Interstate 294, Illinois Route 72, Illinois Route 171, U.S. Route 12 in Illinois, U.S. Route 12 and U.S. Route 45 in Illinois, U.S. Route 45. This allows the O'Hare neighborhood, combined with the nearby suburb of Rosemont, Illinois, Rosemont, to work as an edge city. History In the Second Treaty of Prairie du Chien, Alexander Robinson was given two square miles of land in what is now the O'Hare co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
