ORD Terminal 3 (Chicago, Illinois)

USA / Illinois / Rosemont / Chicago, Illinois
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Terminals 2 and 3 were completed in the 1962 terminal expansion, which allowed almost all Chicago domestic flights to move from Midway Airport to O'Hare. Terminal 3 originally had Concourses G, H, and K, with 29 gates that primarily served the airlines American, TWA, Delta, Lake Central, North Central and Trans Canada. The rotunda building, originally a large upscale restaurant, is now occupied by a combination of food concessions and federal agency offices. The "Y" shaped H/K concourse structure originally had a public observation deck on its central roof.

The 1962 building had a single-level frontage roadway. An upper-level departure frontage roadway was added in the late 1960s. A major expansion of T3 occurred in 1983, when the landside terminal section was enlarged eastward by about 30%, and the 10-gate Concourse L was constructed for the use of Delta Air Lines. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, American expanded the H/K concourses. As TWA's services diminished, American took over most gates on Concourse G.

In 2009 a major expansion of the landside section is well underway, deepening it toward its frontage roadways and filling in space between T2 and T3.
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Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O'Hare_International_Airport#Terminals
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Coordinates:   41°58'31"N   87°54'0"W

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  • Terminals 2 and 3 were completed in the 1962 terminal expansion, which allowed almost all Chicago domestic flights to move from Midway Airport to O'Hare. Terminal 3 originally had Concourses G, H, and K, with 29 gates that primarily served the airlines American, TWA, Delta, Lake Central, North Central and Trans Canada. The rotunda building, originally a large upscale restaurant, is now occupied by a combination of food concessions and federal agency offices. The "Y" shaped H/K concourse structure originally had a public observation deck on its central roof. The 1962 building had a single-level frontage roadway. An upper-level departure frontage roadway was added in the late 1960s. A major expansion of T3 occurred in 1983, when the landside terminal section was enlarged eastward by about 30%, and the 10-gate Concourse L was constructed for the use of Delta Air Lines. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, American expanded the H/K concourses. As TWA's services diminished, American took over most gates on Concourse G. In 2009 a major expansion of the landside section is well underway, deepening it toward its frontage roadways and filling in space between T2 and T3.
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