Noisy O'Hare airport could decide Chicago's mayoral race

Chicago

IN 15 minutes on a recent weekday evening, 18 noisy airplanes buzzed over Marie MacDonald's back porch. They flew past one after another: regional jets and jumbos, airliners and cargo planes, all rumbling above this city's Northwest Side on their final approach to O'Hare International Airport.

"They've come to a point where they're going to make me a prisoner in my own house," said Ms MacDonald, a 52-year-old teacher who moved to this mostly residential, middle-class neighbourhood more than two years ago expecting solitude and quiet.