OurAirports: Comments on Chicago O'Hare International Airport

[KORD] "re: Why Is It ORD" by Anonymous Flier

Tue, 18 Oct 2011 12:16:12 -0400

Comment by an Anonymous Flier on Chicago O'Hare International Airport, United States:

According to the wikipedia entry for O'Hare (which I can't link as an anonymous coward) the airport was originally Orchard Field Airport.

[KORD] "re: Why Is It ORD" by Anonymous Flier

Fri, 04 Jun 2010 18:45:06 -0400

Comment by an Anonymous Flier on Chicago O'Hare International Airport, United States:

Reply to @XingR:

Actually the original name of the airport was Orchard Downs "ORD"

[KORD] "Why Is It ORD" by XingR

Fri, 20 Jul 2007 07:52:52 -0400

Comment by @XingR on Chicago O'Hare International Airport, United States:

The name is O'Hare after a WWII aviator from Chicago. But the ORD designator come from the past. The present airport is built on the site of another, older airport that was known as Old Orchard Airport. You learn a lot when you've been stuck in terminals for hours and hours ... and when your itinerary includes KORD ... bank on it.