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O'Hare International Airport (ORD)
O’Hare International Airport (IATA: ORD, ICAO: KORD, FAA LID: ORD), simply known as Chicago Airport, is an airport located in Chicago, Illinois, 17 miles (27 km) northwest of Chicago Loop. It serves Chicago Metropolitan Area.
Chicago O’Hare Airport is currently the sixth busiest airport in the world. The Airport has a total of 8 runways, which allow up to 2,700 operations per day.
ORD Airport works as a hub for American Airlines and United Airlines and is a Focus city for Frontier Airlines and Spirit Airlines.
Designed to be the successor to Chicago's Midway International Airport, 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 named after Edward "Butch" O'Hare, the U.S. Navy's first Medal of Honor recipient during that war. 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.
O'Hare became famous during the jet age, holding the distinction as the world's busiest airport from 1963 to 1998; today, it is the world's sixth-busiest airport, serving 83 million passengers in 2018.