jet noise complaints

The opening of a new runway won't change noise over the Northwest Side significantly, officials said.

The federal government will pick up the tab to soundproof several dozen Norwood Park homes.

However, city will rotate which runways are used at night to reduce the noise over some neighborhoods.

A new east-west runway opened at O'Hare in 2013, sending hundreds of flights over the Northwest Side.

The number of complaints about jet noise rose 1,800 percent from May 2014 to May 2015.

Workshops hosted by federal officials are set for August, and a town hall meeting is set for Thursday.

Plans to dismantle a runway are on hold while city officials meet with residents angry about jet noise.

Plans to dismantle a runway are on hold while city officials meet with residents angry about jet noise.

The flight tracker app gives residents a way to see all of the planes swirling in Chicago's skies.

City officials got 100,000 more complaints in April than in March, officials said.

Ginger Evans was picked by Mayor Rahm Emanuel to lead the Chicago Department of Aviation.

The change would have a "negligible" impact on the ability of planes to use the runway, officials said.

A study will determine how much jet noise actually impacts those who live in the flight path.

"Obviously, the level of frustration is high," the chairwoman of the O'Hare noise comssion said.

Complaints rose 20 percent in January, according to data released by a city commission.