I am David Hatton, I am from Manchester, England, and spent one year living in Schaumburg IL. I loved the North West Illinois suburbs along with Chicago so much, that I used many of them to be the locations within a book I wrote: Across The Miles. Schaumburg is the central location and is about a 20 year old girl, Emily, moving to America for the first time to get distance from her ex boyfriend, Richard. But the two cannot fight their feelings and carry a relationship across a year through only the use of paper and a pen. Can they do it? The book is available to read free, online, and will be uploaded chapter by chapter so keep looking back to see how Emily and Richard are doing. Free online book is available at http://acrossthemilesbydavidhatton.blogspot.com/