CHICAGO, ILL. — No flights are landing or departing at Chicago area airports. Southwest Airlines has cancelled all flights Friday at Midway. The FAA said a contractor set fire to a radar facility in Aurora, Illinois. Emergency 

According to the official criminal complaint, Howard entered the Chicago Air Route Traffic Control Center just after 5 a.m. Friday while “dragging a black hard-sided roller board suit case.” The complaint says a message was posted to Howard's Facebook a half-hour later, They are urging people who plan to fly on Saturday, to call their airline directly before heading to the airport. Airlines are waiving rebooking fees, and are promising that passengers will be able to 

The man accused of setting a fire in an air traffic control center, causing the shutdown of operations at Chicago O'Hare International and nearby Midway Airport, sent a private Facebook message to a relative just before he 

Planes destined for Chicago airports won't be allowed to depart until at least 10 a.m. CT (11 a.m. ET), the FAA said on its website. More than 360 flights scheduled to depart O'Hare were canceled, as were 79 from Midway, 

(CNN) — A contract employee at a Chicago-area air traffic control center apparently set a fire and tried to kill himself, officials said Friday, shutting the facility and stopping all flights at the world's second-busiest airport.