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    A peek inside Chicago's hush-hush competition to pick an O'Hare expansion architect: 'This whole process has been pretty weird.'

    by Blair Kamin, Chicago Tribune Feb 14, 2019 4 minutes

    CHICAGO - The shades were drawn last month when a glittering array of architects presented their plans for the massive O'Hare International Airport expansion in a high-ceilinged downtown lecture hall. Other glass walls that would have let people peek in were papered over.

    The architects included Zurich-based Santiago Calatrava, designer of the bird-shaped addition to the Milwaukee Art Museum, and Chicago's Jeanne Gang, best known for her curvaceous Aqua Tower.

    At stake: A prestigious commission worth millions of dollars in fees and the right to reshape the core of the nation's busiest airport.

    The secretive deliberations hinted at what

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