Ohare Expansion

Rahm Says O'Hare Cargo Center Will Bring Thousands Of Jobs

AP | Posted 05.14.2012

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CHICAGO -- The city of Chicago has reached an agreement to begin construction of a $200 million cargo center at O'Hare International Airport. Mayor R...

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O'Hare Expansion Work Poses Safety Risks, FAA Says

AP | Posted 05.28.2011

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CHICAGO -- A cargo plane nearly crashed into a fence as it took off and several other aircraft also had close calls during major construction over sev...

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O'Hare Expansion: Partial Deal Reached With Carriers

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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CHICAGO — The city of Chicago and two major airlines announced a nearly $1.2 billion deal Monday to go ahead with parts of a long-planned expans...

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Mayor Daley Meets With Airlines To Talk O'Hare Expansion

AP | MICHAEL TARM | Posted 05.25.2011

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CHICAGO — Chicago Mayor Richard Daley met Wednesday with wary airline executives without reaching a deal to ensure that a $15 billion expansion ...

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UPDATE: City Approves Another $1 Billion For O'Hare Expansion

Posted 05.25.2011

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UPDATE: The city council approved the $1 billion bond measure for the O'Hare expansion project, but demurred on annexing 271 acres of neighboring B...

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O'Hare Expansion: Bensenville Home Demolition To Begin Today

Chicago Tribune | Posted 05.25.2011

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After long delays, work begins today to demolish more than 500 vacant homes and businesses in northwest suburban Bensenville to make way for the final...

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O'Hare Expansion: City Cannot Remove Graves From Nearby Cemetery

NBC Chicago | Posted 05.25.2011

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A state appellate court granted a temporary restraining order Thursday night, stopping the City of Chicago from relocating any more graves from the hi...

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Cemetery To Be Bulldozed For O'Hare Expansion

ABC Chicago | Posted 05.25.2011

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A DuPage County judge ruled a cemetery must be sold to the city of Chicago so the O'Hare Expansion Project can be completed....

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Bensenville Ends Multi-Decade Fight With O'Hare Over Airport Expansion

AP | MICHAEL TARM | Posted 05.25.2011

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CHICAGO — A David-and-Goliath legal battle that pitted a small suburb against the city of Chicago over the expansion of O'Hare International Air...

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Bodies Moved From Cemetery In Crosshairs Of O'Hare Expansion

CBS 2 | Jay Levine | Posted 05.25.2011

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The only thing standing in the way of new runways at O'Hare were remains at St. Johannes Cemetery. After months of runaround, cemetery officials have ...

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O'Hare Getting $12M In Stimulus Money

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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CHICAGO - Chicago aviation officials say O'Hare International Airport will get $12 million in federal stimulus money to help improve existing infrastr...

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Blagojevich Probe Looking At O'Hare, City Contracts

Chicago Sun-Times | CAROL MARIN, TIM NOVAK AND CHRIS FUSCO | Posted 05.25.2011

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Federal authorities are investigating five construction companies that collectively have gotten hundreds of millions of dollars in construction work a...

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O'Hare Expansion At Top Of Stimulus Projects List

Crain's Chicago Business | Greg Hinz | Posted 05.25.2011

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Mayor Richard M. Daley hasn't been too specific about what's on the city's economic-stimulus wish list. But during a visit to Washington on Tuesday, h...

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O'Hare Delays Worst Among All Major Airports

Crain's Chicago Business | Meghan Streit | Posted 05.25.2011

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O'Hare International Airport continued to have the worst on-time departure ranking in 2008. The airport remained at the bottom of the list of 32 airp...

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Court Stops O'Hare Bulldozers, Protects Bensenville

Daily Herald | Marni Pyke | Posted 05.25.2011

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Illinois appeals court justices turned back the clock on a dramatic ruling this summer by a DuPage judge allowing the bulldozing of Bensenville homes ...

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O'Hare Expansion Dispute Continues

Chicago Tribune | Art Barnum | Posted 05.25.2011

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The battle over the O'Hare airport expansion continued today with attorneys for Bensenville telling appellate court justices that Chicago's continued ...

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Airlines Questioning O'Hare Expansion

Chicago Tribune | Jon Hilkevitch and Julie Johnsson | Posted 05.25.2011

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As the first new runway in Chicago in 37 years is set to open Thursday, major airlines serving O'Hare International Airport have unanimously called f...

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