Chicago Airport Fire: Suspect Brian Howard Possible Motive, Flight Status Update

Flights at Chicago's O'Hare and Midway airports are expected to fully resume after the fire at a nearby air-traffic-control facility Friday. Brian Howard, 36, has been charged with one count of destruction of aircraft or aircraft facilities and remains

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, 

LINTHICUM, Md. (WJZ) — Air traffic is slowly moving again in Chicago's airspace after a fire at a nearby radar facility forced the FAA to order ground stops. More than 850 flights were canceled in Chicago alone, causing backups at airports all across

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 started the blaze, the FBI

CHICAGO — All flights in and out of Chicago's two airports were halted Friday after a fire at a suburban air traffic control center that authorities said was deliberately set by a contract employee. The ground stoppage at two of the nation's busiest