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    Elon Musk's Boring Company Will Build High-Speed Train To Chicago's O'Hare Airport

    The train tunnel company will build and operate an "express service to transport people to O'Hare Airport from downtown in 12 minutes," Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel says.
    by Bill Chappell Jun 14, 2018 2 minutes
    An artist's rendering shows the design of an "electric skate" vehicle that the Boring Company says could travel up to 150 mph and whisk passengers to and from Chicago's O'Hare Airport in minutes.

    Chicago has selected Elon Musk's Boring Company to build and operate an "express service to transport people to O'Hare Airport from downtown in 12 minutes on electric vehicles in underground tunnels," Mayor Rahm Emanuel says.

    The Chicago Express would be "100 percent privately funded," the Boring Company says. Emanuel added that there would be no public

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