“Hello, Chicago, hello!”
Another hit for the Midwest’s biggest city. Sweet home Chicago has completed a cargo terminal expansion at O’Hare which should help cargo transfers and freight forwarders who use it (meaning pretty much everyone) at a new 132,000 square foot addition to the freight facility. Worldwide Freight Services has already moved in and started operations in the building flanked by pads large enough to park two 747-8 cargo liners. Wow! That’s a lot of airplane and freight space – my feeble memory says a cargo 747 handles roughly 27 forty-foot containers of freight? So we’re talking a bunch.
WFS announced in early June that it had signed a 15-year lease with developer Realterm to run the quick-turn warehouse at one of the nation’s largest passenger and cargo gateways. The new facility increases WFS’ cargo capacity at O’Hare airport by more than 10%. The provider of airport ground services controls three other transit centers with a combined footprint of nearly 600,000 square feet, not including space subleased from an airline tenant. The new building on the northeast quadrant of the airport is flanked by about 200,000 square feet of ramp space that can accommodate two large freighters the size of a Boeing 747-8.
Then there’s the rub… the city is weeks behind on actually completing the taxiways to the facility.
Congestion at O’Hare is also down, but logistics companies still complain about pinch points from outdated building infrastructure, inadequate road and receiving areas for trucks, labor shortages and limited digital communications between stakeholders.
The city’s Aviation Department declined to provide anyone who could discuss the significance of the new project or why the path connecting the parking area and runway is delayed.
Realterm originally said it planned to invested $56 million in the new building and ramp, which includes solar panels and chargers for electric forklift vehicles and required major excavation and site preparation. The price is believed to have escalated significantly since 2021. Marketing Director Sophia Stuart declined to provide an updated figure of the development cost.
Nothing like hitting your schedule, huh… brand new facility all dressed up and ready for the airplanes to pah-tee and the airplanes can’t get to it.
Bonus points if you correctly identify the quote in the title.
Category: "Your Tax Dollars At Work", Government Incompetence
Every time I’ve had something stolen from my luggage, it’s been when I go through O’Hare.
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I don’t understand, plenty of murders in Chicago this year they should have plenty of bodies to fill the taxiway with.
You gonna use a quote from a motion picture about a train to discuss an article about aircraft terminals and Chicago Corruption? May not be any gold but I think I see a silver streak. Gotta drink to that.
And we have a winnah!
Rest In Peace, Scatman Crothers.
“Silver Streak.”
1976.
Starring Gene Wilder, Richard Pryor, Jill Claybough, Patrick McGoohan, Ned Beatty, Richard Kiel, Ray Watson, Clifton James, Fred Willard, Robert Culp and many others.
Sadly, all mentioned above to include Scatman are no longer with us.
They just don’t make em (movies) as they used to. Too much PC and Wokeness
2 minute clip from “Silver Streak” with that line from Scatman…”Hello, Chicago, Hello!
https://youtu.be/48eRSthM-mE
“HELLO, Chicago, hello!”
Looks a lot more like Toronto, that’s where that scene was filmed.
Hey, API, it’s Hollyweird…where any city can be what they want it to be. Watched at an old Randolph Scott/Errol Flynn (Virginia City c 1940) motion picture on the Grit TV Channel last night. Opening scene showing Dec 1864 Richmond VA and Scott was placing a Colts Peacemaker in his military (CSA) holster. Little bit later he was in a discussion with the CSA Government about transferring gold from VA City Nev by way of TX and on to Richmond. Writers had Vicksburg falling that day (it fell July 63) and Sherman in Atlanta (‘Cump was already in Savanah on 22 Dec 64). The bandit John Murrell was portrayed as being around and attempting to steal the gold for himself (Murrell died in 1844) Accurate dates and places don’t mean sh^t to those bastard writers, much less historical accuracy. I make a game out of picking out the blatant inaccuracies. Has a tendency to piss off the folks trying to watch a picture show with me.
I’m the same, put me wherever a Military Movie is being shown and …
That’s one of the fun things about watching a movie, especially one that makes historical references … seeing where the writers didn’t do their homework.
Of course, it’s just as much fun picking apart other kinds of films for their inaccuracies as well.
I mean, I understand “suspension of disbelief,” but if you’re gonna set the movie in an alternate timeline/universe, why not just say so?
Just in… Stand by for Leftist rioting (not “insurrection” when they do it) because Supreme Court outlawed using race in college admissions:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/news/u-supreme-court-strikes-down-140316138.html
How many decades behind and overdue was this?
At least five…
The idea that we’ll fix past racism with future racism is so brain dead it hurts.
Nothing unusual here especially for a deep blue city. The private enterprise dudes get stuff done, and on skec. The city cannot accomplish the mission in anything like a timely manner. Nothing to them, they get paid regardless.
Need the Seabees.
Building the runways under fire ain’t for the fainthearted.
Maybe they should have asked for help from the SeaBees…….
Gee whiz, think there might be local mafia and politicians taking too many kickbacks for one problem?
After the 1919 race riots they had to elect Democrats to keep blacks in line. Their solution; strip them of their non-union jobs and herd them into public housing began a poverty cycle that continues to this day.
Teenage Future Mayor Richard Daley participated in going through black neighborhoods and attacking blacks on sight who at the time were a small but rapidly growing minority in the city. Most of the riot behavior was initiated by whites.
Been nearly 100 years since a Republican mayor.