Chester, IL Noise Levels
Chester, IL: what the federal noise map shows
At Chester, IL, road, rail and aircraft noise all fall below the 45 dB(A) floor BTS's national map can distinguish from silence. That figure is sampled at one coordinate, the Census Bureau's own internal point for Chester, not a street-by-street survey of the whole place.
Where Chester ranks
Chester is one of 8,515 places in this dataset with no measurable transportation noise at all, too quiet to rank on loudness. About 6,759 people live there, making it the 4,130th largest place in this dataset.
Your street may differ from Chester's reading
For a single house or lot in Chester rather than the town-wide figure above, BTS's own map is the same free source, queried directly.
More on how this number was built
For exactly which federal dataset feeds Chester's figure, see the methodology guide. The guide to reading a quiet result explains what "no measurable noise" actually means at Chester.