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Vintage Chicago Tribune: How O’Hare became a ‘first in the nation’ airport

By | krumore@chicagotribune.com | Chicago Tribune and | mmather@chicagotribune.com | Chicago Tribune
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A United Airlines plane takes the overpass, which is the approach strip to the runway, as cars enter and leave Chicago's O’Hare International Airport on Sept. 22, 1967. (William Vendetta/Chicago Tribune)
A United Airlines plane takes the overpass, which is the approach strip to the runway, as cars enter and leave Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport on Sept. 22, 1967. (William Vendetta/Chicago Tribune)
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Change is constant at O'Hare airport, from Orchard Place farmland to a military aircraft plant, to building the new "O'Hare Global Terminal."
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