Why is there a dinosaur in O Hare airport?

The dinosaur skeleton--actually, a fiberglass replica of 280 bones in storage at the Field Museum in Chicago--stood guard in the museum's main entrance hall from 1993 until last week, when it was dismantled, given a fresh coat of paint, loaded into a pair of moving trucks, carted to O'Hare and reassembled in United's ...



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Chicago O'Hare International Airport is one of the busiest airports in the US (consistently in the top four for at least the past five years). It was developed as a major expansion for the city after the Second World War and saw huge growth when newly introduced jets moved away from Midway Airport.

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As the first major airport planned after World War II, O'Hare's innovative design pioneered concepts such as concourses, direct highway access to the terminal, jet bridges, and underground refueling systems.

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O'Hare sees off flights to more than 200 destinations in the U.S. and abroad and is a hub for American and United airlines. It has the most runways (eight) of any international airport in the world.

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