O'Hare's Ghost: Whatever Happened to Terminal 4?

Curious City

WBEZ Chicago

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4.8 • 642 Ratings

🗓️ 25 December 2016

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

The area’s premier airport sports Terminals 1, 2, 3 and ... 5. What gives?

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0:00.0	When we're the...
0:03.0	Where's that...
0:05.0	Where's that story?
0:06.0	It's Curious City.
0:08.0	Where WBEZ answers your questions...
0:11.0	About Chicago, the region, and its people.
0:14.0	Hey, it's Jesse Dukes with Curious City.
0:17.0	Today, we have a classic from 2014, but it's actually pretty timely, because many of you are
0:23.1	spending some quality time or not so quality time at the airport right around now.
0:29.1	I'll let reporter Yolanda Perdomo take it from here.
0:32.2	Curious City gets asked some version of this question quite a bit, and it has to do with
0:36.4	O'Hare International Airport. It's the flagship airport in the Chicago bit, and it has to do with O'Hare International Airport.
0:38.4	It's the flagship airport in the Chicago area, and it's one of the nation's busiest.
0:43.1	Here's the question from the guy who asked it.
0:45.0	My name is Tim Trumner. I'm 30 years old. I'm a teacher and a writer.
0:51.9	My sort of lifelong concern with where is terminal four at O'Hare?
0:56.2	I always thought it was kind of strange that the numbering goes from one, two, three, and then five.
1:00.1	So I wondered why there's not a terminal four, or if there is, if it's hidden somewhere.
1:05.4	Well, to answer the question, I figured I'd go there. And yeah, the numbers mystery is in plain sight.
1:10.5	I'm at O'Hare, not far from where people take the train in and out of the airport. And yeah, the numbers mystery is in plain sight. I'm at O'Hare not far from where people
1:12.3	take the train in and out of the airport, and the first thing you see are signs. And they're not
1:17.0	hard to miss. They're labeled one, two, three, and five. Confusing, maybe. Interesting, for sure.
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