Chicago O’Hare airport sundown jet taxi time lapse

A United Express jet pulls into Gate F10 at O'Hare's International Terminal. United lounge goings on reflected in the glass.

O'Hare has non-stop flights to 228 destinations in North America, South America, Europe, Africa, Asia and Oceania.

- Nicknamed the "busiest square mile in the world"
- Began as a military airfield during World War II
- Named after Edward "Butch" O'Hare, the U.S. Navy's first Medal of Honor recipient during that war.
- Became famous during the jet age, holding the distinction as the world's busiest airport from 1963 to 1998; today, it is the world's sixth-busiest airport, serving 83 million passengers in 2018.