Watching construction at O’Hare International Airport is like being on the playing field during a pro football game, except the participants are bigger and mechanized. Powerful pull scrapers sprint across the airport’s face, engine rumble rises like the roar of 100,000 Bears fans and on the sidelines stand the existing terminals and air traffic control tower.
The Super Bowl of airport construction projects has started about 20 miles northwest of the Loop—and the stakes are higher than a mere football game.