The answer is a third airport

For years, the Suburban O'Hare Commission has been supporting a third airport at Peotone and giving permanent relief to the suburbs that surround O'Hare. Now after the airlines spent millions of dollars to expand the capacity at O'Hare and straighten out the runways at an airport that lacks any real growth potential, the city of Chicago was forced to angle flights coming off the the new runways, moving the flight paths from city wards to the suburbs,

Thie will temporarily quiet city residents, but as O'Hare expands operations, the flights have to go somewhere. so suburban and city residents who got a reprieve from constant jet noise today will eventually get more jet noise tomorrow,

The city of Chicago, which owns the airport, can either accept more flights paths going over city wards, continue to temporarily appease their voters by playing games with flight tracks or provide permanent relief by building a third airport that has the potential to handle more flights, which will ultimately benefit everybody tomorrow.

Joseph Kolek

Elmwood Park