https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/ywekwm/elon-musks-boring-company-is-building-an-18-mile-tunnel-in-chicago > On Thursday morning, the Chicago mayor’s office announced that it had selected Elon Musk’s tunnel digging venture, the Boring Company, to build a high-speed transportation system linking O’Hare airport and downtown Chicago. > Up until this point, the Boring Company was just a handful of employees working from two trailers in the SpaceX parking lot, where it is digging a test tunnel. Boring has developed a tunnel excavation system that can currently excavate at 1/15 the speed of a snail, but so far the only products it has sold are $1 million worth of hats and $10 million worth of flamethrowers.