Soon you'll be able to skip security lines if you're flying out of O'Hare. more ›

The naval aviator won the Navy's first "flying ace" and received the Medal of Honor in WWII when he shot down five Japanese planes in a single battle and saved his aircraft carrier, the U.S. Lexington. more ›

The Uzbek refugee has ties to Islamic Jihad Union. He has been blamed for attacks in Uzbekistan and Afghanistan. more ›

Travelers leave thousands of dollars in change behind at local airports, Miss Wisconsin crowned Miss America, and other news. more ›

American Eagle Airlines has been handed the first fines to be meted out since an April 2010 rule change by the Transportation Department limiting tarmac delays to three hours. more ›

The Sun-Times reports today that nearly 1,700 high-quality fake IDs have been seized by Customs officials at O'Hare Airport. Customs and Border Protection officers working at the airport's International Mail Facility have confiscated the counterfeit state IDs, which are being ordered online mainly by college students from online companies in China. They are now investigating some of the intended recipients. more ›

Gov. Quinn has asked Amtrak CEO Joseph Boardman to conduct a study looking into the feasibility of one day connecting Amtrak Service from Union Station to O'Hare as a nonstop commuter rail as an alternative to Mayor Daley's much-criticized plan for high speed rail from the unfinished Block 37 station to the airport. Quinn sees an opportunity to connect O'Hare with proposed high-speed rail lines between St. Louis and Chicago. the goal of the study is to measure the costs of doing so and figure out the logistics. more ›

Mayor Daley has consulted his crystal ball and said the time to expand O’Hare Airport is now, despite dwindling air traffic levels and a lawsuit filed by the airlines to prevent the expansion plan. more ›

Mayor Daley is using the waning days of his reign over Chicago to make one last push to move the O'Hare Airport expansion project towards completion, and he's enlisted freshman U.S. Senator Mark Kirk to help out. According to ABC-7, Kirk met with Chicago's aviation commissioner Rosemarie Andolino on Friday to get the scoop on the progress (or lack thereof) that's being made on runway expansion, which has been receiving pushback from the airport's major airlines, United and American. The two airlines do not want to provide the funds for an "ill-conceived" project. That's where Kirk comes in: more ›

With more than 20-30 inches of snow falling hard along the East Coast (Gothamist dubbed it "Blizzargeddon"), travel plans throughout the country are being thrown all out of whack. more ›

In a city that's currently stalled on arguing about whether or not we can eat food from a truck, Mayor Daley is pushing legislation to allow airport patrons to drink from a cart. At today's City Council meeting, Daley introduced a measure to create two new licenses for vendors at O'Hare and Midway to sell spirits alongside beer and wine. more ›

The 2009 numbers are in and Chicago's O'Hare Airport has been bumped down a spot to fourth place on the "busiest airports in the world" list by Beijing, the only one of the top four airports in the world that saw an increase in passengers last year. Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson remained first with 88 million passengers (down 2.3 percent) followed by London Heathrow with 66 million (down 1.5 percent). Beijing Capital International Airport had 65.3 million passengers, an increase of 17 percent over 2008, while O'Hare saw 64.4 million passengers, a decline of 8.8 percent. O'Hare's decline was also the largest among the world's top 20 airports. Part of the decline is being blamed on cuts by United and American Airlines, the two biggest carriers out of the airport. more ›

Beleagured Chicago-based United Airlines instituted a new policy today aimed at overweight folks, saying that if you can't wedge yourself comfortably into a regular sized seat, they reserve the right to charge you for a second seat or an upgrade to a bigger business/first class seat. And if the flight is sold-out and there are no extra seats available, well then, tubby, you're going to get bumped from the flight. United joins other airlines with similar restrictions, including Southwest and their adroitly named "Customer of Size" policy. more ›

The group of community leaders in Bensenville fighting the O'Hare expansion has launched a new multimedia ad campaign, saying the plan will destroy the community without improving airport capacity. "We are not about 'Not In My Backyard.' We are about expanding the airport the right way," Bensenville Village President John Geils said at a news conference at Chicago City Hall. The city plans to spend $15 billion to modernize O'Hare by 2014 and has already acquired over 500 properties and a cemetery for a runway scheduled for 2011. more ›

American Airlines has been taking it on the chin in recent weeks, from having their flights grounded for inspections to their announcement this week that they're charging an extra fee for luggage to make up for rising fuel prices. This week, we revisit one of the more tragic moments in American Airlines history. more ›