Help please (Chicago: neighborhoods, schools, universities)

[xuyafeilove2007]

hello, guys, i am Sophia, currently live in china, of course i am chinese, i am university student now, fourth year, i am going to graduate in july 1st 2012, so from july 2011 to july 2012, we will have to go to the internship, and i am going to move to american in august 2011, so i need to find a place around chicago which offers internship for me, i really don't know if any places hire people like me who is not american. is there someone who has the experience, please contact me, i need your help. my email is Mod Cut
thanks again.

[linicx]

I have no understanding of your situation. Here is a link to the Chnatown Chamber of Commerce. There are several resource in the pages and an emall address for the chamber. I would contact them. This group should be able to help you.

Welcome to Chicago Chinatown (http://www.chicagochinatown.org/cccorg/about.jsp - broken link)

[xuyafeilove2007]

thanks very much for your response, Linicx, i guess i didnt really make my situation clearly, i should add something here, lol, My major is Urban planning, undergraduate student, 5 years major, our education system is a little different from yours, schools make all the schedule for you, you don't get to choose many classes for yourself. so my major is a 5 years major, it means that i have to stay in school for 5 years. i already finished 4 years course, the last year is for internship and graduate design project, since i will move to american in august this year, it means i will have to get my internship done in america, then come back to school in july 2012 to graduate and get my bachelor degree. my problem is if there will be a company that hire a me as an intern around chicago, since i heard that there is not many universities in america which have undergraduate student in Urban planning major, only postgraudate students and doctor degree, so i wonder if they will want me as an intern, besides, i am chinese, not american students. so all these factors confuses me, i hope someone can tell me something about it. because i need to plan on things. thanks for reading and replying, i am grateful. have a good evening. sincerely sophia.

[linicx]

duck.duck.go is a search engine that brings up results the other two miss. Here is a link that might be useful Cyburbia - urban planning community and this https://duckduckgo.com/?q=IL+and+urb...ing+internship

One of the problems I see you faceing is your 5th yearin college is our first year masters program. The second consideration - and I hope I do not sound indelicate - is that your courses may be far more advance than ours or vice versa.

One of the problems you may run into is transportation. You have teriffic transportation int he city but not so in the outer suburbs. It can be very overwhelming to a new visitor. The locals do not talk about Chicago in terms of street names and train schedules. It is neighborhoods and time to drive or ride a train between point A and point B. .

Chicago Chinatown is quite a large community. The reason I suggest the Chamber of Commerce is because they work closely with the City of Chicago. Most likely they a have a finger on the pulse of the city, and they will certainly know who pulls which strings in the City. In America. sometims who you know is far more important than what you know. It can't hurt to email the chamber. I will be glad to try to help you. You can also contact me privaetly by clicking on my name and selecting Send a Direct Message to linicx.