Okay, major thanks to everyone who did their best to help me find someplace other than a hotel room to stay. I really, REALLY appreciate everything you guys did, from simple suggestions to actually hunting down friends and family for me. It was all incredibly kind of you, and I truly am grateful, so thank you.

Fortunately, my parents have decided to pay for a hotel room, which I both appreciate and am slightly bummed about. Not because I hate hotel rooms or anything silly like that (I actually don't mind them), but because they've already paid for so much of what I do that I feel bad that they're spending any more money on me. I even told them that I was finding somewhere else to stay (at the time Tony's family was potentially willing to put me up for a night), but they still wanted to spend the money and get me a hotel room for some strange reason.

So, now I have a place to stay, but I've still got lots of time to kill. I land at about 8pm on the 17th, my interview is at 11am on the 18th, and my return flight leaves at 8pm that same day. So okay, maybe it's not LOTS of time, but there's a good several hours in there where I will be bored out of my mind, and since checkout is at noon on the 18th, the only thing I can really do once my interview is over is hang around the airport and wait for my flight. Which means I have a new request for all of you:

Anyone have any idea of stuff I can go site-see in Chicago? My transportation is limited to the CTA system and airport shuttles, since it's cheap and a taxi would be WAY to expensive, but if any of you guys have any suggestions on places I should try to visit while I'm there that'd be awesome. Or, for those of you that know people in the area, if any of your friends or family who you were going to ask to put me up for the night aren't too terribly busy, I'd love to be given a mini-tour or something by someone who actually knows the place. So yeah, if anyone has any ideas of stuff to do that's inexpensive and fairly easily accessible from the O'Hare airport, I'd appreciate it.