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Renting an Apartment in Schaumburg
Schaumburg is a village in Cook County and DuPage County, Illinois. 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 village 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 village 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.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of
49.5 km˛ (19.1 mi˛). 49.2 km˛ (19.0 mi˛) of it is land and 0.3 km˛ (0.1 mi˛) of
it (0.63%) is water.