wtf? are you going do in Shaumburg?!?!
go to a mall?
I am sure there are suburbs where you live, they are the same. Go to Devon, Argyle, (these are both ethnicly dominated streets, the former Indo-Pakastani and the later mostly Vietnamese) eat some stuff. When in chicago don't bike on Western, you will die. Instead bike on Damen, Elston, Milwaukee (Milwaukee will take you straight from Downtown into the center of Wicker Park, keep going and you will be at Logan Square)
http://www.cityofchicago.org/Transpo...ap/keymap.html