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Airport Construction: Midway and JFK

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New York and Chicago have announced the contractors who will bring much needed updates to two international airports. Midway International Airport in Chicago will spend $89.2 MDW Security Hall. million to expand security checkpoints, contracting with contractor F.H. Paschen/S.N.

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Komatsu America Relocating HQ to Chicago

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15 miles to new offices on Chicago's northwest side at Triangle Plaza on Bryn Mawr Avenue. The Triangle Plaza office will put Komatsu at the crossroads of I-294 and I-90, and just steps from O'Hare Airport, making the company more accessible for prospective employees. The move will be completed by 2020.

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Moody's Gives Thumbs Down to O'Hare Expansion

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The Chicago Sun-Times reports Wall Street rating agency, Moody's Investors Service, labeled Chicago's O'Hare Airport project as “credit negative” on Thursday because it will “increase leverage and airline costs above those of airport peers, weakening O’Hare’s competitive position and airlines’ profitability.”

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Boring Company OK'd to Build Loop from the Loop

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Elon Musk's The Boring Company has won the bid to build a high-speed express train to Chicago's O'Hare International Airport, according to Crain's Chicago Business.

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Western Access to O'Hare Nearing Reality

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The dream of driving to O'Hare Airport from the western Chicago suburbs - a route that is currently nothing less than a nightmare - is reported to be thisclose to coming true, according to Crain's Chicago Business.

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Update: O'Hare Overhaul Gets American OK

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The Chicago Tribune reports Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and American Airlines came to terms Wednesday night, effectively ending American's opposition to the airport expansion project.

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New Cat Headquarters in Deerfield, IL

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Caterpillar announced today that its new global headquarters will be located in Deerfield, Illinois, a northern Chicago suburb. The new headquarters building is minutes away from Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport, is centrally located near major interstates and offers direct access to the Chicago Metra.

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