O�Hare Airport Modernization Program

The $7 billion O�Hare Modernization Program (OMP) will reconfigure the runways, extend two existing terminals and add a new West Terminal at the country�s second busiest airport by 2013 if all goes according to plan. However, the OMP has been fiercely opposed by some local communities, especially to the west where land would be taken for new runways, the new terminal, and approach roads. The new configuration will feature eight runways: six east-west parallel runways and two parallel northeast-southwest crosswind runways. Only three of the runways will intersect.