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Major Renovation Project at KORD Finally Wraps

Officials in Chicago celebrated the conclusion of a 16-year, $6 billion modernization program at O’Hare International Airport.

These aerial images show the dramatic transformation of Chicago's O'Hare International Airport over the past decade. The image on the left was taken in 2011, several years after the start of the O’Hare Modernization Program. The image on the right was taken this year, showing the new runways and associated changes made during the course of the $6 billion development project. (Photos: Chicago Department of Aviation)

By Curt Epstein • Business Aviation Services Editor

September 13, 2021

Officials in Chicago are celebrating the conclusion of a 16-year, $6 billion modernization program at O’Hare International Airport (KORD), one of the world’s busiest gateways. Under the O’Hare modernization program, the airport’s outdated runway system was reconfigured into a series of parallel runways running east-west to increase capacity. Since the beginning of the program, system-impact delays have been slashed by 64 percent, according to the Chicago Department of Aviation, which operates the airport.

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