Hilton Garden Inn Schaumburg

Travel Blogs from Schaumburg

Leaving Home

A travel blog entry by shane0620

... lot, but something that has taken me much longer to develop than I had hoped is the confidence in myself and in my own ideas that I would have hoped college would give me. Sure, I'm more confident than I was in 8th grade, but when you come from a baseline near zero, "more confident" is practically meaningless.

So, when all is said and done, I guess what I imagine the purpose of this trip to be is to challenge myself enough to become comfortable ...

2120 South Michigan Ave

A travel blog entry by pazza17

Previous Blog: Sweet Home Chicago is an old Blues song that has been covered by a heap of artists but you may know it from the Blues Brothers movie.
G'day Folks
Amazingly enough the party animals upstairs were quiet on Saturday night, not home on Sunday at 11am when I left the house maybe?
Anyway, Sammy and I went into town to go on the Untouchables Tour. On the way in the Parry charm come through again, the ticket machine at the station ...

Lower West Side Story

A travel blog entry by cafe_travel

... account of the origin of the fire is that it was started by a cow kicking over a lantern in the barn owned by Patrick and Catherine O’Leary. Michael Ahern, the Chicago Republican reporter who created the cow story, admitted in 1893 that he had made it up because he thought it would make colorful copy.
The tour was absolutely spectacular and has ignited a passion in me for architecture. It’s not that I’ve never appreciated fine architecture before, ...

Captains Blog - Days 7 to 18

A travel blog entry by kale.ledwidge

... supersized my McDonalds, had a burrito from Chipotle, munchkins from Dunkin' Donuts, Chinese that is served in little white boxes, tried blue chips, gold fish biscuits, yohoo chocolate milk, haagen-dazs icecream, peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, fried chicken with mashed 'potaters' and a side of macaroni(?), drank out of red cups, had a kosher turkey sandwich, paid $11 for a 12 pack of coronas and $6.50 for a tostada. Other ...

It's one, two, three strikes you're out!

A travel blog entry by kins

... I had woken up again so they we could make our way back to the L to get back to the car. Ended up getting home about 1am so had a bit of a sleep in today and I am feeling a bit more with it.

On the agenda for today: The Crystal Lake 4th of July parade, a party at Lauren's Uncle's house, then a concert with fireworks that Lauren is playing in, then probably back to the party ... another full on day! I should go and get ready.

Love you ...