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@momtochloe wrote:
@Desertdi wrote:
@Kachina624 wrote:
@Desertdi wrote:I'm from the far north Chicago burbs, and never heard of Hodgkins. Looked it up.........and the world's largest UPS ground distribution facility is located there..................
@Desertdi There you go. I suppose it has the biggest and best recreational facilities for packages too. I thought Atlanta was Ground Zero for UPS but apparently things have changed. Hodgkins is surely delaying our packages. I never saw that name until recently. Now it's the kiss of death if your package lands there.
Next time I fly into Midway from the Southwest, I'm going to look for the UPS facility.
@Kachina624 You have fortitude flying into Midway! Holy cow......the planes practically skim the roofs of cars on Cicero Avenue. Then again, Sky Harbor is right in the middle of a heavily populated area, too! di
It is frightening how those planes fly so close to heavily populated community areas (not industrial like ORD) . . . I honestly don't know how folks can live there/take that noise . . .
It can't be healthy for the people who live by Midway to have all those planes flying so close overhead. I'm talking about the exhaust that is spewed out.
I just checked on the delivery of a dress I ordered from Nordstrom. It's in Hodgkins!
@scatcat wrote:
@momtochloe wrote:
@Desertdi wrote:
@Kachina624 wrote:
@Desertdi wrote:I'm from the far north Chicago burbs, and never heard of Hodgkins. Looked it up.........and the world's largest UPS ground distribution facility is located there..................
@Desertdi There you go. I suppose it has the biggest and best recreational facilities for packages too. I thought Atlanta was Ground Zero for UPS but apparently things have changed. Hodgkins is surely delaying our packages. I never saw that name until recently. Now it's the kiss of death if your package lands there.
Next time I fly into Midway from the Southwest, I'm going to look for the UPS facility.
@Kachina624 You have fortitude flying into Midway! Holy cow......the planes practically skim the roofs of cars on Cicero Avenue. Then again, Sky Harbor is right in the middle of a heavily populated area, too! di
It is frightening how those planes fly so close to heavily populated community areas (not industrial like ORD) . . . I honestly don't know how folks can live there/take that noise . . .
It can't be healthy for the people who live by Midway to have all those planes flying so close overhead. I'm talking about the exhaust that is spewed out.
I just checked on the delivery of a dress I ordered from Nordstrom. It's in Hodgkins!
The airport has been there a LONG time. So anyone who lives there knew it was there before living there!
Same with O'Hare Airport. Every so often there's a major gripe session from some area around it complaining of noise, increase in noise, etc. People KNEW the airport was there. My in-laws lived right on top of it. It was noisy A LOT.
Hyacinth
@hyacinth003 wrote:
@scatcat wrote:
@momtochloe wrote:
@Desertdi wrote:
@Kachina624 wrote:
@Desertdi wrote:I'm from the far north Chicago burbs, and never heard of Hodgkins. Looked it up.........and the world's largest UPS ground distribution facility is located there..................
@Desertdi There you go. I suppose it has the biggest and best recreational facilities for packages too. I thought Atlanta was Ground Zero for UPS but apparently things have changed. Hodgkins is surely delaying our packages. I never saw that name until recently. Now it's the kiss of death if your package lands there.
Next time I fly into Midway from the Southwest, I'm going to look for the UPS facility.
@Kachina624 You have fortitude flying into Midway! Holy cow......the planes practically skim the roofs of cars on Cicero Avenue. Then again, Sky Harbor is right in the middle of a heavily populated area, too! di
It is frightening how those planes fly so close to heavily populated community areas (not industrial like ORD) . . . I honestly don't know how folks can live there/take that noise . . .
It can't be healthy for the people who live by Midway to have all those planes flying so close overhead. I'm talking about the exhaust that is spewed out.
I just checked on the delivery of a dress I ordered from Nordstrom. It's in Hodgkins!
The airport has been there a LONG time. So anyone who lives there knew it was there before living there!
Same with O'Hare Airport. Every so often there's a major gripe session from some area around it complaining of noise, increase in noise, etc. People KNEW the airport was there. My in-laws lived right on top of it. It was noisy A LOT.
Hyacinth
I've lived in the western suburbs my whole life. I'm aware O'Hare and Midway have been there a long time. I'm not talking about airplane noise. I'm talking about the toxins that spew out of the 1000 airplanes that take off and land every day. O'Hare has a little more of a buffer
@hyacinth003 wrote:Speaking of Midway Airport, I spent lots of my life about 5 miles south of it. When I was a child, one of my favorite activities was going there to watch the planes take off. I would beg my dad to take us there.
He would park the car behind the fence, and we would sit there as long as he'd stay and watch planes take off and land. It was really fun at night.
When I was in high school, one of my favorite date nights was to do that or actually go in and walk around the terminals. We would go to the big windows and watch the planes come in or take off.
Now you can't get near the airport. O'Hare isn't really inside Chicago. It is outside nearer northwest suburbs. It is officially run by Chicago though. We didn't go there when I was a child as it was much farther. Did go occasionally with my boyfriend though.
Hyacinth
@hyacinth003 oh this brings back memories as we used to do the same at ORD (so many families would be lined up outside the fences to watch the planes come in, all of us sprawled on the hood/trunk of the car).
Fast forward a couple of decades and my parents happened to pick a house directly under the flight path of the major runway at ORD (you wouldn't realize it at the time as there just wasn't that much air traffic). . . we never noticed but guests that came over would ask how we could stand the noise from the planes (and we were about 12 miles away from the airport). I can't imagine how folks in and around MDW do it to be honest but then again my aunt's house was directly behind one of the "L" lines and after a while you don't hear that either (but you better make sure your beverage isn't close to the edge of the table) . . . 
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