A Southwest flight performed a go-around to avoid "conflict with another aircraft" on Tuesday morning at Midway airport.
Passengers said smoke and flames shot out of the engine just as the plane was about to lift off the ground.
Brian Howard, 36, of Naperville has been charged with one felony count of Destruction of Aircraft or Aircraft Facilities after he allegedly set a fire in the basement of an Aurora FAA facility.
All flights in and out of Chicago's two airports were halted Friday morning because of a fire at a suburban Chicago air traffic control facility.