Private Jet Slips Off Runway At O'Hare, Airliner Slides On Taxiway
A private plane slid off the end of a runway Tuesday afternoon at O'Hare International Airport, and minutes later an American Airlines jet slipped on a taxiway.
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A private plane slid off the end of a runway Tuesday afternoon at O'Hare International Airport, and minutes later an American Airlines jet slipped on a taxiway.
Engineering and design giant Parsons Brinckerhoff was chosen Thursday to identify potential routes for high-speed rail service between downtown and O'Hare Airport.
While Democrats and Republicans in the Illinois General Assembly haven't been able to find much common ground lately, those who represent people around O'Hare International Airport have banded together to try to bring some relief from increased jet noise.
A 21-year-old woman collapsed and lost consciousness Saturday afternoon inside the airport. A Chicago Police officer assigned to the Airport Law Enforcement District responded immediately and performed CPR, police said.
Serial stowaway Marilyn Hartman, arrested for trespassing at O'Hare International Airport again on Wednesday, is being held on a $150,000 bond.
To better spread out jet noise, O'Hare International Airport might start rotating the runways it uses at night on a weekly basis as soon as May under a six-month test approved Tuesday by a special "Fly Quiet" committee.
A new $1.3 billion deal for a new runway was announced at O'Hare Airport Sunday afternoon, reports WBBM's Mariam Sobh.
The city of Chicago has reached a deal with the Federal Aviation Administration and United and American Airlines on a $1.3 billion infrastructure plan for O'Hare Airport that includes a building a sixth runway.
It took an anti-airport noise group two dozen formal requests over the past couple years to get a meeting with Mayor Rahm Emanuel, but they said their meeting at City Hall on Wednesday was "a waste of our time."
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For the second time in a month, a United Airlines flight arriving from San Francisco slid off a runway at O'Hare airport on Friday.
A massive winter storm set to hit the East Coast on Friday was wreaking havoc at airports across the country, including at O'Hare and Midway in Chicago.
O'Hare International Airport has lost its title as the nation's busiest airport.
Shuttle America Flight 3461, operating as United Express, with 69 passengers and 4 crew on board, was headed from LaGuardia Airport in New York to O'Hare International Airport when it was forced to make a stop in Detroit, because a female passenger had attacked a flight attendant.
The truck struck the wing of the plane about 11:15 p.m. while the plane was stationary at O'Hare, according to Chicago Police and Chicago Fire Department Chief Juan Hernandez.
Chicago Fire Department, Chicago Aviation Department and FAA officials confirmed United Flight 1977 from Seattle slid off the end of Runway 27R into an overrun area after missing a turn to begin taxiing to the terminal. The airline said the plane never left the pavement, and stopped within an overrun area.
More than 300 flights were canceled at O'Hare and Midway airports Tuesday and thousands of ComEd customers remained without power after a wintry mix of sleet, freezing rain, snow and high winds pummeled the Chicago area Monday.
Emotions were running high at O'Hare International Airport early Tuesday, a day after hundreds of flights were canceled due to a winter storm.
Tens of thousands of travelers were expected to crowd O'Hare and Midway airports on Wednesday, as they head out for the Christmas and New Year's holidays. In all, city officials expected more than 4.6 million people to travel through Chicago's two airports between December 18 and January 5.
A photograph of the married couple who carried out a mass shooting in San Bernardino, Calif. shows them entering the U.S. at O'Hare Airport in July, 2014.
O'Hare and Midway airports were packed on Wednesday as the Thanksgiving travel period got underway, but it's been smooth sailing so far.
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Despite tensions over the possibility of more terror attacks like the one in Paris, some security workers at O'Hare International Airport planned to walk off the job on Thursday to demand better pay.
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