FAA chief to visit sabotaged Chicago-area facility

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AURORA, Ill. (AP) — The head of the Federal Aviation Administration plans to visit a Chicago-area communications center that was sabotaged by a fire, shutting down Chicago’s two international airports.

FAA Administrator Michael Huerta will tour the center and meet with Illinois’ congressional delegation Friday. Lawmakers have called for an investigation into how a former contract employee entered the building with a suitcase Sept. 26 without causing suspicion.

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