Chin & Associates — received federal grand jury subpoenas as part of a federal probe into a $1.25 million loan a Huels-owned company received from a city trucking contractor. The black-and-white structure -- actually two separate 75-foot-long buildings connected by a not-yet functioning rotunda restaurant -- opened to the public one day after Mayor Richard J. Daley toured it. The plan sails through its first test as the City Council adopts an ordinance allowing for new lease and use agreements for the gates at O'Hare to pay for the project. The expansion included additional terminal and cargo buildings, airplane hangars, car parking, a post office, flight kitchens and rental car facilities. The project is expected to break ground in 2023. The airport had become a big draw for folks checking out the airport, but whose vehicles took up spots intended for travelers.
The Sustainable Airport Manual (SAM) was issued in August 2009*, producing the nation's first sustainability guidance for airports, including the development of a rating system, green airplane certification award system, and recognition of designers and contractors for sustainable accomplishments.
Just 10 months after ground was broken on the main manufacturing building, the huge plant -- said by the company to be the largest timber construction in the world -- is finished.
The first passenger to board was Dorothy Marth, of Kankakee, who was heading to Paris to visit her husband, Weldon, a private in the U.S. Army who was stationed there. Edward Burke, 14th. The partnership keeps its international terminal contract until Daley retired in 2011. In 1957*, a fifth runway was added to O'Hare International Airport. O’Hare 21 is a multi-dimensional, multi-phased umbrella for the long-term vision for O’Hare and includes: The Terminal Area Plan (TAP)—which includes both the O’Hare Global Terminal and the two Satellite Concourses; Completion of the O’Hare Modernization Program (OMP) major airfield projects; Runway 9C-27C; Runway 9R-27L extension
Midway airport opened for business and has been opened ever since. Sources: Tribune archives, Chicago Department of Aviation, "A History of Chicago's O'Hare Airport" by Michael Branigan, single largest, most expensive terminal revamp, struggling for decades to get ready for the 21st century, when construction equipment first tore up Orchard Place farmland, announces plans to construct an assembly plant on 1,347 acres, said by the company to be the largest timber construction in the world, fits well into plans for a network of planned expressways, best choice for the city's postwar airport, atom bomb material were to be discovered at the site, 2,300 lots, 63 farms, a small cemetery, a golf course, county school land and two county schools, renamed in honor of Lt. Cmdr. When a TWA flight landed at O'Hare from Paris, its passengers were the first to be processed inside a customs depot that included immigration, public health and agricultural inspectors -- services that weren't previously available.
In 1990*, Mayor Richard M. Daley led the initiative to introduce Passenger Facility Charge (PFC) legislation, providing funds needed to modernize the nation's airports at no cost to local taxpayers. Aldermen who went to federal prison included Perry Hutchinson, 9th, Marian Humes, 8th, Clifford Kelley, 20th, and Wallace Davis, 27th. O'Hare International Airport reached the 60 million passenger mark for the first time in 1990.