McDonald's
Finding it
McDonald's is in Concourse K, Near Gate K9 in Terminal 3 near Gate K9 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 K9
Terminal 3 has 9 places to eat in this directory; the earliest opens at 12am.
Hours against the security queue
McDonald's opens at 4am and closes at 10pm. FlyIndex's wait-time data puts the typical ORD checkpoint queue at 27 minutes around 4am.
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 near Gate K9, this is one of four McDonald's inside Terminal 3 alone, so a traveler at a K-gate has a shorter walk here than to the H- or L-concourse locations in the same terminal. Concourse K sits at the far end of American's hub from Concourse H, and this location is the only McDonald's serving that stretch of gates directly. Across the whole airport there are eight McDonald's locations; this one's value is entirely about which gates it's closest to rather than anything it offers that the others don't.
One of 8 McDonald's locations at O'Hare International Airport (Terminal 1, Terminal 2, Terminal 3, Terminal 5).
What to expect
- burger
Other options in Terminal 3
All past the same checkpoint, so you can reach them without clearing security again.
Sources
- Eat - O'Hare International Airport — Chicago Department of Aviation, checked 2026-09-09
Official Travel Resources
1 verified external links from airport operators and U.S. agencies.