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Residents say the noise from aircraft flying around the stadium is out of control.

The latest noise reduction plan needed a ⅔ vote to pass, but federal officials will consider it anyway.

The plan is a "big breakthrough" in the effort to reduce jet noise, Aviation chief Ginger Evans said.

No more studies of noise and air pollution created by the airport expansion is required, officials said.

Two large lighted Xs now block both ends of the runway, but anti-noise activists vowed to keep fighting.

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

The bill was championed by the Fair Allocation in Runways Coalition.

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

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

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.

Meetings will take place before the runway is dismantled, according to the agreement.

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

Mayor Emanuel asked federal officials to double the number of public meetings about a new O'Hare runway.

That plan could include shelving a plan to tear up diagonal runways, according to the mayor's office.