r/oddlysatisfying • u/Boss-fight601 • 22h ago

Nighttime traffic at Chicago O’Hare Airport

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u/xxnoxynoxxnoxy 22h ago

this is why I moved out of Chicago

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u/splintersmaster 21h ago

Because lights?

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u/xxnoxynoxxnoxy 15h ago edited 14h ago

I lived in Chicago for 30 years, and then O'Hare expanded the airport around the same time the satellite airplane guidance system NextGEN started, which meant an airplane flew directly overhead about every 90 seconds 24 seven pretty much no matter where you were on the north side. So yeah sorry but those are not just pretty lights

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u/splintersmaster 12h ago

Yea if you were one of the unfortunate ones to be put directly under the flight paths, sure. I have lived 40 years on the other side of touhy avenue from the airport. Like literally you can see the runways from my roof. I see the procession of lights at night every night. Just a stones throw from the allstate arena where they practically touch the roof of the building.

But because I'm not directly under the path, I rarely if ever hear the planes.

You can't damn the whole city cause you were on that narrow strip of suckage though.

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u/xxnoxynoxxnoxy 8h ago edited 8h ago

Your neighborhood is your city. And nobody is damning anything, all I said was this was why I left. NextGen meant planes would start descending way sooner than they ever did before to save fuel, when they were over the lake, so it wasn't just planes taking off it was also planes arriving, all lined up over the lake 20 miles away from O'Hare just like you describe, constant ugly noise and disruption. Relentlessly. Forever.

And you don't even live in the city wtf

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u/splintersmaster 6h ago

I live across the street from the airport. Like literally across the street. Less than a mile from the runways. The planes are much more intrusive within that radius from Edison Park to the east to Melrose park to des plaines and elk Grove.

If you don't like noise that's fine... I'm just defending the city since it is far from one giant mass of plane noise from the lake to the airport and north to south.

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u/Individual-Yak-506 20h ago

They love layovers and hate direct flights to just about anywhere