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50th Birthday Party for Chicago O’Hare Airport

03/24/13

Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport is having a 50th Anniversary Celebration this week with a wide variety of special theme days, music, activities and – yay – discounts and free stuff for passengers. Here’s a run-down. Throughout the week, many concessions will be offering discounts and specials. Monday, March 25 is Military Appreciation Day. Military and […]

Chasing ICE at O’Hare Airport

01/11/13

It’s cold in Chicago this time of year and it may feel a bit colder at O’Hare International Airport when you take a few moments to view the new exhibit featuring a collection of 18 large-scale images of glaciers from the Extreme Ice Survey (EIS) project. “Ice: Portraits of Vanishing Glaciers”, located past security in […]

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Week long delay for some Alaska Airlines passengers?

01/08/13

My route home to Seattle from Santiago, Chile was via Miami and Chicago, so I suspected I was maybe just very tired and a bit out of it when I looked at the “Departures” and “Arrivals” screens for Alaska Airlines at O’Hare International Airport. The departures were definitely for January 7th – my day of […]

Fun Stuff

Music and art mash-up at O’Hare & Midway airports

10/19/12

Chicago’s O’Hare and Midway airports are participating in the city-wide Chicago Artists Month 2012 celebration with airport events that match music groups with artists. Performances on tap for today (Friday, October 19th) from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. in O’Hare include the Breezy Rodio Duo playing reggae while artist Kenneth Amorio creates oil paintings. At […]

Music

“Art of Science” photos at O’Hare Int’l Airport

07/26/12

Scientists, it turns out, are an arty bunch. A new exhibit at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport shows us that “in the pursuit of better batteries, cures for diseases, clean energy sources or a better understanding of the world around us, scientists often find unexpected beauty.” You can see some of that unexpected beauty in the […]

Chicago airports celebrate “Taste of Chicago”

07/11/12

Chicago’s yummy summer event, a “Taste of Chicago,” kicks off Wednesday, July 11 and even if you just have a stopover at O’Hare or Midway International airports, you can do some nibbling. From Wednesday through Sunday, many restaurants and retail stores at both airports will be offering “Taste” specials to travelers. At O’Hare, Macaroni Grill (Terminal […]

Food

O’Hare Airport noodles the NATO numbers

05/23/12

There’s been a lot of coverage of NATO-related activity in Chicago, but not much about the role O’Hare Airport has played in the summit. So the folks at the airport tallied up some of NATO-related numbers relating to the arrivals of world leaders, international delegations and foreign press: Number of Flight Arrivals: O’Hare private flight […]

Events

Gardening at Chicago’s O’Hare and Midway Airports

04/02/12

Gardening at Chicago's O'Hare and Midway Airports

O’Hare Airport grows an aeroponic garden

09/16/11

O'Hare opens first aeroponic garden in an airport.

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