Auntie Anne's Pretzels – E4
Hours
7:00 AM - 9:00 PM
Alcohol
No
Finding it
Auntie Anne's Pretzels – E4 is in Concourse E, Near Gate E4 in Terminal 2 near Gate E4 at O'Hare International Airport. It is airside, past the security checkpoint, so allow for the queue before you count on it.
- Nearest gates
- Gate E4
Terminal 2 has 4 places to eat in this directory; the earliest opens at 4am.
Hours against the security queue
Auntie Anne's Pretzels – E4 opens at 7am and closes at 9pm. FlyIndex's wait-time data puts the typical ORD checkpoint queue at 25 minutes around 7am.
Across the week, ORD security runs longest around 4am at a median of 27 minutes, and lightest around 2am at 1 minute. The queue is typically building before this location opens.
Queue figures are medians from FlyIndex's ORD wait-time record, not a live reading.
About this location
Positioned at gate E4 in Concourse E, this is the Terminal 2 counterpart to the Auntie Anne's near gate C18 in Terminal 1's Concourse C. The two are the only pretzel counters of this brand at O'Hare, split across terminals on opposite sides of security, so a connecting passenger who wants a second stop has to leave and re-enter a checkpoint to find it. E4 sits deep enough into the concourse that it mainly serves the gates clustered toward that end rather than the ones nearer the terminal's entrance, making it more of a mid-concourse stop than a first option off the checkpoint.
What to expect
- pretzel
Other options in Terminal 2
All past the same checkpoint, so you can reach them without clearing security again.
Sources
- O'Hare International Airport — Wikipedia, checked 2026-09-04
- Dine | Chicago O'Hare International Airport (ORD) — Chicago Department of Aviation, checked 2026-09-09
Official Travel Resources
1 verified external links from airport operators and U.S. agencies.