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Rome may not have been built in a day, but an O'Hare runway was reworked in one eight-hour, overnight shift recently. The New York-based company, Hi-Lite Markings Inc., did the remodeling work on the central 10-28 runway, called "one of the busiest runways in the world" by the Tribune, last week. The move was part of the airport's $6.6 billion modernization project and is meant to reduce the number of intersections between runways.

About 24 Hi-Lite employees used specialized equipment to shorten the runway to 9,000 feet from 13,000 feet. First they stripped paint and then applied a fresh coat.

American Airlines flight 268 landed at O'Hare shortly after 1:50 p.m. and ran off the runway. No injuries were reported in the incident.

Nearly 2,000 runners took off this morning at O’Hare for the Athens Sister City Shuffle 5K run on O’Hare’s newest runway: 9L/27R. It was a bit warm, but most were there for the highlight of being able to run or walk on a runway.

A Mexicana Airlines flight overshot the runway at O’Hare yesterday, just after 7 p.m. The plane struck a concrete safety barrier -- an arrestor bed -- designed to stop planes that don’t want to stop. One person, a flight attendant, was injured and taken to the hospital. 142 people were evacuated from a stair truck and taken to the terminal on buses.