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City: New runway over former cemetery expected to open at end of 2013
By Jon Hilkevitch
7:10 PM CDT, October 27, 2011
About 75 percent of the graves blocking a new runway under construction at O’Hare International Airport will have been removed by the end of the week, and the runway is scheduled for completion by December 2013, O’Hare expansion officials said Thursday.
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Exhumations will hit the 900 mark this week, said Jim Chilton, an official with DMJM Aviation Partners who is the program manager for the O’Hare Modernization Program.
Chilton spoke at a conference presented Thursday by the Eno Transportation Foundation and the city focusing on lessons learned during the first phase of O’Hare expansion.
The $8.6 billion project began in 2005, and so far only one new runway has opened and an existing runway was lengthened.
The “cemetery runway,’’ as runway 10 Center/28 Center is informally called, is set to open in two years, followed next by a far southern runway in 2016 10 Right/28 Left, which will be built on the site of more than 400 homes that the city demolished in Bensenville.
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