Could visionary Elon Musk deliver O'Hare express service to Chicago?

Could visionary billionaire Elon Musk of SpaceX and Tesla fame turn Chicago's elusive dream of building a high-speed rail line between downtown and O'Hare Airport into a reality?

Mayor Rahm Emanuel thinks he just might. That's why the mayor dispatched a team of top aides to Los Angeles last week to check out the Jetsons-like technology that Musk plans to use to build a subterranean mass transit system in tunnels beneath Los Angeles County.

"The opportunity for Chicago is endless and boundless ... It would be a tremendous investment, job creator and economic engine for the city that would pay dividends for decades ahead," Emanuel said. "They are very interested. And we're gonna have `em now out to the city to explore further what we are doing and planning to see whether the tunnel approach is an alternative to the ones we've been discussing."

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