O'Hare Expansion Takes Another Step Forward

By Marcus Gilmer in News on Feb 28, 2009 7:15PM

This week, the city's attempt to expand O'Hare got another win as the FAA approved the city's request to spend $182 million in airline passenger ticket taxes on designs for the expansion. According to the Trib, the money will be used on, "...the design of two new runways, an extension to an existing runway and a planned western passenger terminal." The entire $15 billion project is still facing major hurdles, though, including a fight by the residents of Bensenville and the major airlines who don't see the spending in the current economy as justifiable.