On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 12:20:28AM -0600, Mark S. Reglewski wrote: | On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, dman wrote: | | > The details aren't finished yet, but it looks like I'll be working in | > Chicago (Elgin, actually) next quarter. Is anyone here in the Chicago | > area? | | I live about three miles from the Loop. Dman, you may be a fine | Unix/Linux hacker, but you need to develop your map-reading skills. | Elgin is about forty miles NW of the Loop, and few Chicagoans or | Elginians would consider it a suburb of Chicago at that distance. | It's at the edge of my road map, next to the legend "Here There Be | Dragons".
:-) I looked it up on maps.yahoo.com. I had no idea where Elgin was, and I saw Chicago near it. The zoom can have an effect on perspective as well, and I didn't look at the scale. I was in Boy Scouts when I was younger -- I can read a map when I need to :-). Ok, taking a closer look, yahoo says it is 41 miles and will take 51 minutes with most of the route on I-90 and I-94. At a zoom level of 6, Elgin is just a hair away from the end of the yellow blob that I presume is supposed to be the city. Hmm, no key on this map. Maybe the bright yellow means something else? Thanks for the tip though. | If you don't have a car out here, you won't actually be *in* Chicago | very much, though it's an easy drive on I-90 if you do. I plan on having a car, but I don't know if I'll be driving around much. | I hope you make it out here. Street food is cheap and edible. More | pizzerias than people. Do they have "Italian beef" sandwiches where | you come from? If not, you'll have to try them, they're delicious. I'm not familiar with that name of sandwich. (I'm from Rochester, NY) -D -- If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup.
