For now, things are quiet in the neighborhood next to Prairie Elementary School in Orland Park, where a noise dispute involving the school and a village resident has the police chief serving as referee.
The dispute centers on a playground project Orland Elementary District 135 undertook two years ago which incorporated musical instruments placed in one area of the playground at the school.
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A nearby resident has since tried to convince district officials to remove the instruments, saying they interfere with the family’s quality of life, according to Chief Eric Rossi.
In recent weeks, the resident began playing loud music which “included songs with vulgar content and language that is clearly not suitable for children,” according to the chief.
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Subsequently, the district removed the musical instruments elements, except for a bell, but the base structures still remain, Rossi said in a letter to families of Prairie students.
On Monday, three base structures for what appear to have been percussion instruments remained, along with an instrument that resembles a xylophone but lacks mallets of any sort to play it.
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Rossi said in the letter he is mediating discussions between the property owner and school personnel.
A temporary peace has been reached, with the property owner pulling the plug on the loud music while the district “mulls a proposed compromise resolution,” Rossi wrote.
“Progress is being made in this dispute, and hopefully a permanent solution can be achieved in the very near future,” he wrote.
The chief wrote that a “win-win resolution is within reach.”
The playground at Prairie, 14200 S. 82nd Ave., is close to the backyards of some of the homes on Streamstown Court, where the resident involved in the dispute lives, and runs parallel to 82nd Avenue.
One Streamstown Court resident, who asked that she not be identified by name, said Monday she was not particularly bothered by the sounds coming from the playground.
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“I can hear it if I’m outside, but that’s about it,” she said. “I didn’t think much of it but can understand other people might be bothered.”
What did irk her was the loud music one of her neighbors played in retaliation.
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“You can’t really call it music in my opinion,” she said. “It was just horrible.”
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In his letter, Rossi said his department had, before efforts at mediation, been “called to the area on a number of occasions” for noise complaints about the loud music.
He said a meter was used to measure the volume of the music coming from the property, and that each time a level was tested, the noise registered below limits set in village code.
The chief said the village has no authority “to regulate the placement of playground equipment and/or its use at Prairie Elementary School or to require that the Board of Education take any specific action with respect to the same.”
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Rossi did not respond to a message left Monday seeking additional information about the ongoing dispute.
A spokeswoman for the school district did not respond to an email sent seeking comment. District schools were not in session Monday.
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