ABSTRACT
While the previous chapter addressed legal questions surrounding airports and land use, this one focuses more specifically on Chicago O’Hare International Airport (ORD) in order to show the ways in which politics often plays a major role in decisions affecting airports. In Chicago the whole nation is impacted by the labyrinth of connecting flights that make up hub and spoke airline operations. This is why it can be so much more perplexing that it is not for lack of land, will, or money that Chicago air travel remains one of the most delay plagued in the country.
