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Jun 16, 2001 | 9:47 pm

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shadow

Join Date: Jul 1999

Location: SEA

Posts: 3,178

Someone sent me that about 6 months ago. Interesting stuff.

The other part of the story should be...where did ORD come from?

Answer: It stands for Orchard Field, which is what it was originally called before being renamed O'Hare.

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