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Radio Extra: Fed Up About Jet Noise? App Offers a New Way to Complain

February 10, 2015 12:47pm | Updated February 10, 2015 12:47pm
An MD-80 aircraft takes off from O'Hare Airport
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O'HARE — Fed up with the city's rules for filing complaints about jet noise, a member of an anti-O'Hare noise group created a new app to make it easier for residents to file a complaint with city officials.

Darrin Thomas, a member of the Fair Allocation in Runways Coalition, said the free app — Chicago Noise Complaint — is designed to make it easier for people like him who are angry about the racket generated by planes using O'Hare Airport's newest east-west runway to complain to city officials.

On this DNAinfo Radio Extra, Heather Cherone details how the app works, and how complaints about jet noise are skyrocketing:

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