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title: "ORD — Chicago O'Hare Airport, Chicago · Orbit"
description: "Chicago O'Hare International Airport (ORD/KORD) serves Chicago, United States. Opened 1944, named after Edward O'Hare, 84.9 million passengers in 2025."
url: https://orbitflights.app/airports/ord
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Chicago · United States · North America

# ORD — Chicago O'Hare

Chicago O'Hare International Airport serves Chicago, United States, 26 km from the city centre, and sits at 42.0°N, 87.9°W. This site carries 4 routes touching it, with the great circle distance for each.

**IATA**
ORD
the code on your bag tag

**ICAO**
KORD
used by air traffic control

**Opened**
1944
per Wikidata

**Passengers**
84.9M
in 2025

## History & name

Chicago O'Hare International Airport opened in 1944 and is named after Edward O'Hare (1914–1943), the United States Navy Medal of Honor recipient. It lies 26 km from Chicago, has 8 runways up to 3,962 m long and handled 84.9 million passengers in 2025.

Named after **Edward O'Hare** — United States Navy Medal of Honor recipient (1914–1943)

Read more: [Wikipedia ↗](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O'Hare%5FInternational%5FAirport) · [Wikidata ↗](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q213717)

## At a glance

**Full name**
Chicago O'Hare International Airport

**Serves**
Chicago, United States

**City centre**
26 km from Chicago

**Opened**
1944

**Passengers**
84.9 million in 2025

**Runways**
8 runways, longest 3,962 m

**Elevation**
680 ft (207 m)

**Map**
[Open in Google Maps ↗](https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=41.97860,-87.90480)

**Website**
[flychicago.com ↗](https://www.flychicago.com/ohare/home/pages/default.aspx)

## Where it sits

42.0°N, 87.9°W puts ORD in the northern hemisphere, 4,668 km from the equator and 5,340 km from the North pole.

Of the 661 airports on this site it is the **145th** most northerly, which makes it the 517th most southerly.

## Straight through the middle

Straight down through the centre of the Earth comes out at 42.0°S, 92.1°E. The nearest airport on this site to that point is Perth (PER) in Australia, still 2,385 km away — most of the planet's antipodes are ocean.

## What’s near it

The closest other airport on this site is **Chicago Midway** (MDW), 25 km away in a straight line. It is the only one within 100 km.

MDW Chicago Midway 25 km

## Distances from ORD

Great circle distance and an estimated time in the air. The longest is London, at 6,344 km.

| To                                                        |     | Distance | Estimated |
| --------------------------------------------------------- | --- | -------- | --------- |
| [New York](https://orbitflights.app/routes/jfk-to-ord)    | JFK | 1,188 km | 1h 59m    |
| [Denver](https://orbitflights.app/routes/ord-to-den)      | DEN | 1,426 km | 2h 16m    |
| [Los Angeles](https://orbitflights.app/routes/lax-to-ord) | LAX | 2,802 km | 3h 59m    |
| [London](https://orbitflights.app/routes/lhr-to-ord)      | LHR | 6,344 km | 8h 23m    |

[Distance from ORD to any airport →](https://orbitflights.app/distance?from=ORD&to=LHR) [Map a trip from ORD →](https://orbitflights.app/tools/flight-route-map?r=ORD-LHR)

## Where these facts come from

The profile is looked up, not written from memory: type, runways, elevation and the official website from [OurAirports](https://ourairports.com/data/) (public domain); opening year, namesake, operator and passenger count from [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/) (CC0); the city centre from [GeoNames](https://www.geonames.org/) (CC BY 4.0). Where a source has nothing, the line is left out. Distances, neighbours and the antipode are computed from the coordinates.

What you won’t find: terminal maps, airline lists, shops or live departures. Orbit is a logbook, not a flight tracker, and a page that guessed at those would be worse than one that leaves them out.

[Measure ORD to anywhere →](https://orbitflights.app/distance)

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