Denver is about four hours by air. Last year, O'Hare had the most delays and cancellations of any airport in the country. Daley to push hard Daley said he welcomes the chance to make Chicago's case. While the headquarters represent only a relative handful of jobs, city and state officials said it was the future potential that excited them. Based on its stock market value, the company would be the second-biggest headquarters in the Chicago area after Abbott Laboratories.
Jobs are good.
But it would be an unbelievable strong signal to the world about Chicago. O'Connor is executive director of World Business Chicago, a public-private development corporation and a member of Daley's Council of Technology Advisors. City officials would not speculate on the potential cost of an incentive package. If Boeing had wanted one, he said, the company just would have announced it wanted to move and allowed cities nationwide to roll out the red carpet.