This resident has just about had it with late-night and wee-hours-of-the-morning landings at O’Hare Airport. How do Chicago Department of Aviation officials think we people can get a night’s sleep?
My house is 9.2 miles due south of O’Hare, and it is bad enough that we cannot enjoy our yards on a weekend afternoon with one plane after another taking off from O’Hare and roaring full throttle over us; now we cannot even sleep.
One evening, for instance, one plane coming in crossed over my house at 3:33 a.m., and it really roared; I thought it was too low for safety. The night before that, seven planes came over for landing between the hours of 11 p.m. and 1:30 a.m. A couple of those planes certainly were not retrofitted with silencer kits; the noise literally shook my house.
I would like an answer from Mayor Daley and those responsible for O’Hare. What are these airplanes, freight or passenger? Why must they land at these ungodly hours? Why must they keep us awake and scare our children?
