Airport
Chicago O'Hare International Airport ORD
Chicago, United States · Large airport · ICAO KORD
The code comes from Orchard Field, the airport's name before it was renamed for Edward O'Hare in 1949 — one of the most-cited examples of a code outliving its origin. Weather here disrupts US domestic schedules nationally, given how much traffic routes through it.
Reference data
- IATA
- ORD
- ICAO
- KORD
- Elevation
- 680 ft
- Coordinates
- 41.9786, -87.9048
Local time at ORD
14:35 CDT
Sat, 3 Oct 2026 · UTC−05:00 · America/Chicago
Offsets shift with daylight saving. The time zone planner resolves them for a specific travel date rather than today.
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Routes covered from ORD
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Staying near ORD
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Nearby airports
Ranked by actual distance from ORD's coordinates, not by name or region. Useful when a fare or a schedule makes a neighbouring airport worth the ground transfer.
| IATA | Airport | City | Distance | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MDW | Chicago Midway International Airport | Chicago | 25 km | Look up |
| GYY | Gary/Chicago International Airport | Gary | 57 km | Look up |
| MGC | Michigan City Municipal Airport | Michigan City | 95 km | Look up |
| RFD | Chicago Rockford International Airport | Chicago/Rockford | 101 km | Look up |
| MKE | General Mitchell International Airport | Milwaukee | 108 km | Look up |
| SBN | South Bend International Airport | South Bend | 135 km | Look up |
Airlines based here
Carriers in this site's directory that treat ORD as a hub. This is not a list of every airline serving the airport.
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Terminals, transfer times and facilities change, and this page does not track them. For operational detail, go to the airport itself.
Official ORD website Chicago O'Hare International Airport on Wikipedia
Where this data comes from
Codes, coordinates and elevation come from the public-domain OurAirports dataset, pinned at build time — 4,133 airports, last refreshed 6 September 2026. The time zone is derived from the coordinates above.