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O’Hare’s Terminal 5 to Undergo $8.5B Expansion
Remembering Army’s 1919 Cross-Country Convoy...12
Chicago Department of Aviation photo Kirby-Smith Fundraises for a Cure...14
The improvements to Terminal 5 represent the first in a series of O’Hare 21 expansion projects, which follow the opening of five new gates at Terminal 3’s Concourse L in May 2018.
By Irwin Rapoport
CEG CORRESPONDENT
Ohio Cat’s Global Operator Challenge...24
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Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport, one of the busiest airports in the world, will undergo a $1.2 billion expansion of its Terminal 5 starting in 2020 that not only will upgrade and improve services and amenities at airport, but prepare it for a further $8.5 billion investment targeting a 2023 completion date
— with the bulk of the Terminal 5 expansion to be delivered in 2021. The $8.5 billion includes the $1.2 billion for Terminal 5 and other capital improvement projects for O’Hare 21, to be completed later. A groundbreaking ceremony for the first phase was held on March 20, which included then-Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Chicago Department of Aviation (CDA) Commissioner Jamie L.
Recycling Section ........61-77 Business Calendar ............79 Auction Section ............81-85 Advertisers Index ..............86
Rhee, as well as officials from American Airlines, Delta Air Lines and United Airlines. The timeline looks to complete the new concourse in mid-2021 and the terminal expansion and parking garage, with Delta Air Lines expected to relocate to Terminal 5 from Terminal 2 in late 2021. Beyond 2023, the curbside and roadway expansions will be completed. Additionally, a new on-
airport hotel is planned at Terminal 5, but no firm timeline has been agreed upon for its development. The CDA sees this as a transformative project that will add more than 350,000-sq.-ft. to the terminal and renovate over 750,000-sq. ft. of existing building spaces; add 10 new gates — a 25 percent expansion of aircraft parking space — to better accommodate large aircraft see O’HARE page 50
Report: Poor Infrastructure Grades, Again
By Joe Trinacria
CEG ASSOCIATE EDITOR
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Chicago Department of Aviation photo
Rendering of O’Hare International Airport’s Terminal 5 post-expansion, which is expected to be largely delivered by 2021.
Every four years, the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) produces a comprehensive report grading various zones of infrastructure on both the national and statewide levels. Although infrastructure often goes overlooked or is even taken for granted altogether, it remains our country’s lifeblood and serves as the foundation upon which our daily lives are ultimately carried out. With the release of each ASCE report comes the reluc-
tant affirmation of a grim set of facts that many of us already know too well about our most vital — we as a society have allowed our bridges and roads to decay to the point of near ruin. As with the previous ASCE Infrastructure Report Card, which examined conditions for the year 2013, the cumulative GPA of the United States as a whole is once again a D+ in the organization’s latest summary. The individual categories of infrastructure that the ASCE took into consideration is as follows: Aviation, Bridges, Dams, Drinking Water,
Energy, Hazardous Waste, Inland Waterways, Levees, Ports, Public Parks, Rail, Roads, Schools, Solid Waste, Transit and Wastewater. Out of the 16 zones of infrastructure that were surveyed, only four received passing grades. The scores ranged from as high as a B for Rail to a D- for Transit on the low end of the scale. While any of the failing grades should be enough cause for concern, perhaps none is more troublesome than the D that was given to roads. According to the current ASCE report for 2017 (the most up-to-date year available), see REPORT page 56