Trains vs. Planes
Yet another reason that trains are cooler than planes: when someone calls you from O’Hare and tells you they’re “in Chicago” for a few hours, you’d have to trudge all the way out to Schaumburg and they have to come out of security and then their plane is boarding half-an-hour before it takes off and, ugh, it’s just never worth it. But this weekend my god-children (and their dad) had a one-hour layover at Union Station and I rolled in at the exact moment they got off their train and we had a delightful smoothie and chatted about how school is going and they got back on a train and I went to pick up some food on the way home. Done and done.
O’hare isn’t in Schaumburg. More like Rosemont.
Midway is good for visiting as it’s not as big.
O’Hare is like a country unto itself. I think parts of it reside in Bensenville, Des Plaines, Rosemont and (technically, of course) Chicago. Crazy! Probably more towns than that, too.
All suburbs are Schaumburg to me. I think it’s a German word meaning “suburb”. (Or “foam castle” — same difference.)