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O’Hare is Chicago’s biggest CO2 emitter; Indiana factories are region’s top polluters
In 2023, O’Hare International Airport and its screaming jet engines were Chicago’s biggest single source of carbon dioxide, accounting for one-tenth of the city’s total. Half of Chicago’s CO2 came from a transportation system choked with cross-country …