Please help - advice about schools in Chicago burbs

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Sep 24th 2014, 3:02 pm

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Re: Please help - advice about schools in Chicago burbs

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We live on the North Shore, up in Highland Park. The schools are excellent.

OH attaching v strict commute times to our choices. No more than 1hr door to door by public transport to Sears Tower and same by car to the Schaumburg office (he's splitting his time 3/1/1 between downtown, home office & Schaumburg).

Sep 24th 2014, 3:37 pm

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Re: Please help - advice about schools in Chicago burbs

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..... by public transport to ~~Sears~~ Willis Tower and ......

FIFY

Sep 24th 2014, 3:39 pm

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Haha, I've been calling it the Willis Tower and was told yesterday that people here in Chicago don't like its new moniker and refuse to stop using Sears!

Sep 24th 2014, 3:42 pm

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Re: Please help - advice about schools in Chicago burbs

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Nobody calls it the Willis Tower around here

Sep 24th 2014, 3:46 pm

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Re: Please help - advice about schools in Chicago burbs

Also - to 50% of Chicagoans, Macy's is still Marshall Fields.

Sep 24th 2014, 3:59 pm

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Also - to 50% of Chicagoans, Macy's is still Marshall Fields.

A bit like Scousers calling John Lewis 'George Henry Lee's'

Sep 24th 2014, 5:04 pm

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Haha, I've been calling it the Willis Tower and was told yesterday that people here in Chicago don't like its new moniker and refuse to stop using Sears!

Tell 'em you're British and Willis is a British company.