DNAinfo/Heather Cherone
JEFFERSON PARK — For 11 years, Colleen Cichon-Mulcrone and her husband socked away every penny they could, hoping to renovate the Jefferson Park home where they planned to raise their two children and put down deep roots.
But as they waited for City Hall to issue the permits they needed to get started, a new runway opened at O'Hare Airport, sending nearly 300 planes a day over their formerly quiet neighborhood, and throwing their lives into noisy chaos.
On today's DNAinfo Radio Extra, Heather Cherone discusses the family's decision to spend their renovation piggy bank on soundproofing instead:
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