(Chicago) - Illinois Department of Transportation

Just mentioning O’Hare invokes a response in most people. If O’Hare International Airport (ORD) were a city it would be the 42nd largest city in Illinois, between Quincy and Streamwood. During the war, the airport was called Orchard Place/Douglas Field, hence the airport’s identification ORD. In 1949, the airfield was renamed Chicago O’Hare ................
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