Video Gaming Terminals in 60666 (Ohare, Chicago)

History

The district was called Orchard Place, after a Wisconsin Central depot that opened there in 1887, and few people settled there even with the railroad. In 1942 Douglas Aircraft moved onto the land for a wartime assembly plant, and its first C-54 Skymaster cargo plane was finished on July 30, 1943. The plant had four intersecting concrete runways when the city chose it for a new airport, Orchard Field. In 1949 the City Council renamed it for Lt. Cmdr. Edward H. "Butch" O'Hare, a naval aviator from Chicago who received the Medal of Honor. Commercial flights began in 1955, and the first year's passenger count was 176,902. Chicago annexed the airfield in March 1956, including its western edge across the line in DuPage County. Annexed land had to touch the city, so the council also took in a thin strip of Higgins Road. In 1962 all scheduled Midway flights moved here. C. F. Murphy Associates designed the terminal complex as four linked buildings, and President John F. Kennedy and Mayor Daley dedicated it on March 23, 1963.

The area today

The City's ZIP boundary map draws 60666 around the airport, and the Chicago Department of Aviation's website gives its address as 10000 W. O'Hare Ave., Chicago, IL 60666. The annexed land was large enough that the city created Community Area 76, 14 miles northwest of the Loop, to take it in. The Department of Aviation announced the O'Hare Modernization Program in 2001 to turn crossing runways into a parallel layout, and lists the last new runway as commissioned in November 2020. The Kennedy Expressway, which the CTA says was built with a wide median for the tracks, runs to the airport. The Blue Line, which reached the airport on September 3, 1984, ends at its O'Hare station.

Bars and restaurants here

Bars and restaurants here are inside the airport's terminals, as the City's liquor-license records for this ZIP show. The Department of Aviation began expanding International Terminal 5 in 2019.