CHICAGO -- A runway at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport that had been at the center of a fight over jet noise has been closed.
The Daily Herald in Arlington Heights reports as of Thursday, Runway 14-Left/32-Right has been stripped of its identification numbers.
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The runway had been in operation since the airport was known as Orchard Field. State lawmakers and resident groups near O'Hare opposed the diagonal runway's closing because the construction of a parallel system of six runways is causing some neighborhoods to be newly impacted by jet noise.
Aviation Commissioner Ginger Evans has said the closed runway and a second diagonal runway slated for closing are unsafe because they intersect others and reduce airport efficiency.
There are four diagonal runways at O'Hare, and Evans indicates it's likely a third will be closed.
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