Musk chosen to build high-speed airport transit system in Chicago

Elon Musk has gotten the green light to bring his futuristic high-speed transportation system to the Windy City.

The eccentric billionaire’s Boring Co. was revealed Thursday to have won the bid to build a multibillion-dollar tunnel loop between downtown Chicago and the city’s O’Hare airport.

Adam Collins, a spokesman for Mayor Rahm Emanuel, said the journey in the company’s electric carriages will take roughly 12 minutes.

It now takes about 45 minutes by train from the airport to downtown.

The Boring Co. will fund the project in its entirety.

Musk has said that Boring’s carriages, which travel on a monorail deep underground and carry eight to 16 people each, can travel at a speed of 125 to 150 mph.

Emanuel said the system will strengthen “our great city for future generations.”

The company — named for its tunnel-boring machines — is also working with LA Metro on a “partnership” to build a 2.7-mile prototype tunnel in that city.