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Brighton Park Gets Noise Monitor to See How Bad Sound Near Midway Is

By Kelly Bauer | May 28, 2015 5:12pm | Updated on May 29, 2015 10:46am
 A noise monitor has been put up near Midway Airport.
A noise monitor has been put up near Midway Airport.
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BRIGHTON PARK — The city has installed a noise monitor northeast of Midway International Airport, but results won't be available until July.

The monitor was put up at the request of the Midway Noise Compatibility Commission and will collect data on Runway 22L due to noise complaints from locals. The data will be reported at a commission meeting in July, said Gregg Cunningham, a spokesman for the Chicago Department of Aviation.

The Federal Aviation Administration created new flight paths for Runway 22L in February 2014, leading to complaints from neighbors living in Bridgeport and McKinley Park, which are under the new flight paths. Residents of Bridgeport called the noise from airplanes flying over the neighborhood "obscene" last summer.

The commission said relief would come in "baby steps" during an October meeting, and officials agreed to install a noise monitor northeast of Midway. It went up last month at 3249 S. Albany Ave. in Brighton Park.

Thomas Baliga, Chicago Aviation Department Noise Commission chairman, said at the time the installation of the noise monitor wouldn't mean residents were eligible for sound insulation programs.

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