{"id":411411,"date":"2025-11-28T21:25:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T21:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/411411\/"},"modified":"2025-11-28T21:25:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T21:25:13","slug":"letters-to-santa-program-launched-at-chicago-airports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/411411\/","title":{"rendered":"Letters to Santa program launched at Chicago airports"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\"><strong>CHICAGO<\/strong> &#8211; The annual Letters to Santa program launched at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox32chicago.com\/tag\/transportation\/ohare-transportation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">O\u2019Hare<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox32chicago.com\/tag\/transportation\/midway\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Midway<\/a> airports on Friday, giving travelers a chance to mail holiday wishes to the North Pole through Dec. 19.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Put on by the Chicago Department of Aviation, the program places mailboxes throughout both airports, where passengers can drop postcards that Airport Ambassadors will collect twice daily.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Santa is expected to send replies to anyone who includes contact information, the department said. Mailboxes are set up at Midway\u2019s information desk near the Central Market and at several post-security locations across all terminals at O\u2019Hare.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The holiday tradition comes as Chicago airports experience their busiest travel stretch of the year. Airlines estimate more than 1.63 million passengers will pass through O&#8217;Hare during the Thanksgiving travel period.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\"><b data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source:<\/b> The information in this report came from the Chicago Department of Aviation.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox32chicago.com\/tag\/transportation\/ohare-transportation\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">O&#8217;Hare International Airport<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox32chicago.com\/tag\/transportation\/midway\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Midway International Airport<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox32chicago.com\/tag\/news\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox32chicago.com\/tag\/us\/il\/cook-county\/chicago\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chicago<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHICAGO &#8211; The annual Letters to Santa program launched at O\u2019Hare and Midway airports on Friday, giving travelers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":411412,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[960,5404,5386,1818,56899,50,58322,522,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-411411","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-chicago","9":"tag-cook-county","10":"tag-il","11":"tag-illinois","12":"tag-midway","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-ohare-transportation","15":"tag-transportation","16":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115629439509524718","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=411411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411411\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/411412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}