Chicago O’Hare
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Every international trip I have taken since 2018, including Italy and Ireland, started with a bus or car ride to Chicago O’Hare and a flight out of it, which costs a lot less than flying out of Mitchell International in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. These photographs were taken in its terminals between November 2018 and September 2024. Terminal 5 is the international terminal. On November 1, 2018, the day I flew to Beijing, a Hainan Airlines 787 in a panda livery was being loaded at one of its gates, and a departures board by a window listed that city second, after Hong Kong. Gate M19, also in Terminal 5, is where the flight to India left from in September 2022. In Terminal 1, on January 18, 2019, the walk to the flight to London went through the tunnel between concourses B and C, where the moving walkways run under a ceiling of rainbow-colored neon. On the evening of September 6, 2024, when I left for Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan, the signs for Qatar Airways, Air India, and Cathay Pacific stood together beside a lounge entrance in Terminal 5.
Photos from Chicago O’Hare
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A Hainan Airlines 787 in its panda livery at a Terminal 5 gate, on the day I flew to Beijing in November 2018.
A departures board in Terminal 5 on the afternoon of November 1, 2018, with Beijing second on the list.
Signs for Qatar Airways, Air India, and Cathay Pacific beside a lounge entrance in Terminal 5, on the evening of September 6, 2024.