The city’s Committee on Aviation on Friday approved the termination of a lease agreement with Delta Airlines for a cargo site at O'Hare Airport.
Delta’s lease of the cargo building was originally set to expire in May 2018, but the airline sought an early exit from the agreement because of the company’s merger with Northwest Airlines, first announced in 2008. Cargo operations for Delta have since relocated to a larger facility at O’Hare, according to Chicago Department of Aviation General Counsel Jonathan Leach. The lease had been in place since June 1973.