Homewood Suites by Hilton Chicago Schaumburg

Travel Blogs from Schaumburg

And we're off...

A travel blog entry by dblegldave

... to our next flight, but the Irish wanted to see our passports and security again. Strange...didn't have to take off our shoes. But they made us take our iPads our of our luggage. Interesting how security is different in different countries. We were delayed 10 minutes, then off to Amsterdam. We cleared customs and walked (a long way) to the "baggage hall." Our luggage was already on the conveyor belt. Walked a bit more to the "hotel info" place and they ...

Our 8 night stay in Chicago

A travel blog entry by 2aroundtheworld

... in the evening, had the first facetime with the friends who were all merry celebrating mine an joshs birthday, was upsetting i was missing the traditional bbq but kind if made up for it being in the high 30s :), we adventured out to take photos of the skyline at night and realised to get better photos we would need to get a tripod. My birthday!, I woke up fairly early so I could FaceTime hme which started the day of nicely, minus the fact Adam was late at getting ...

Gearing up for Anarchists and Nurses...

A travel blog entry by lrandal

The talk here, from cab drivers to hotel clerks to cocktail waitresses, is next week's NATO Summit. Depending on which side you favor, anywhere from 10,000 to 50,000 protesters are about to descend on Chicago to march against the war in Afghanistan and the economic status quo and nurses rights and things I haven't managed to tease out in newspaper articles.

Also, nuns are coming. Occupy will be ...

Taste of a travelling businessman's life

A travel blog entry by peppz

... cabs. Groups of co-workers would assemble in the lobbies, preparing for the next day's PowerPoint presentations and such. It was interesting to be exposed to this very different life than my own. As I retreated back to my empty hotel room, I wondered what it was like to be a person who "lives out of their suitcase," as I had in the past worked with such folks. From what I saw on this trip I think there is an inevitable loneliness to it that is tempered ...

The Windy City of Dreams

A travel blog entry by kim_puravida

... one point game until the end, so tight! Amazing to watch!

Wow, I LOVE CHICAGO!

The next day, we made the visit we swore we would do from our first taxi journey into Chicago- Garrett's popcorn! Throughout our stay in Chicago we had always seen queues out of the door, all the way along the street, never ending! So we joined the queue and I bought a medium caramel crisp. SO GOOD. The best popcorn I have ever ...