Category:North America/United States of America/Illinois/Schaumburg/

Coordinates: 42°01′48″N 88°05′15″W 42.03, -88.0875

Schaumburg

Schaumburg is a village in Cook County. As of the 2000 census, the village had a total population of 75,386. As of 2005, the population slightly dropped to 72,690 according to the Census Bureau. A special census conducted by Schaumburg in 2007 shows it had actually increased to 75,936.The city has the headquarters of Motorola. One of only two IKEA stores in Illinois is in Schaumburg. It contains the Woodfield Mall, one of the largest malls in America in terms of shopping area . The city is also the home of the Schaumburg Flyers, a Northern League baseball team whose ballpark, Alexian Field, is located near the Elgin O'Hare Expressway. Schaumburg's transition from a rural community to that of a suburban metropolis began with Alfred Campanelli's first large scale suburban-style development in 1959 and Woodfield Mall's opening on September 9, 1971. Inside the city is 1 of 9 of the Medieval Times buildings.According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of 19.1 square miles (49.5 km), of which, 19.0 square miles (49.2 km) of it is land and 0.1 square miles (0.3 km) of it (0.63%) is water.^[1]

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