Best Aparthotels in North Side, Illinois
Two Extended Stay America properties cover North Side's aparthotel category, both built around studio suites with full kitchens rather than standard hotel rooms, and both priced for a traveler staying multiple nights rather than one. Extended Stay America Suites - Chicago - Itasca sits closer to Busse Woods and O'Hare's western approach, while Extended Stay America Suites - Chicago - Woodfield Mall puts a kitchen and free breakfast within walking distance of Schaumburg's shopping and entertainment cluster. Neither property carries a pool, bar or restaurant; the trade-off across this whole category is fewer traditional hotel amenities in exchange for a full kitchen and a lower per-night rate on a longer stay.
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A Kitchen for the Long Stay
Extended Stay America Suites - Chicago - Itasca rates 7.6 and combines a full kitchen with free breakfast, a pairing not found at its Woodfield Mall counterpart, seven taxi-minutes from Busse Woods and twenty-three from O'Hare. The breakfast inclusion softens the trade-off of an otherwise bare-bones aparthotel stay, giving a longer-term guest one meal a day covered without cooking, while the kitchen handles the rest across a multi-week stay in Itasca's business and office-park corridor near the Milwaukee District rail line, where longer-term guests get real value from that morning meal being one less thing to plan around each day.
Extended Stay America Suites - Chicago - Woodfield Mall rates 7.2 and sits within walking distance of Wood Library-Museum of Anesthesiology and Egg Harbor Cafe, four minutes on foot, putting Woodfield Mall's shopping and LEGOLAND Discovery Center within easy reach for a longer family stay. No breakfast here, unlike the Itasca property, but the walkable stretch of shops and restaurants nearby partly compensates for that gap, giving guests options beyond the in-suite kitchen on evenings out during a multi-week visit spent mostly around Schaumburg's office and retail corridor, particularly on nights when cooking after a full day feels like one chore too many.
Both properties share the core aparthotel trade-off: free parking, free Wi-Fi and pet-friendly rooms, but no pool, bar or restaurant, and a studio layout that suits a solo traveler or couple better than a larger family needing separate sleeping spaces. Anyone booking either property for a single night will likely find the kitchen goes unused and the value proposition weaker than at a standard hotel with breakfast included instead of a rarely-touched stovetop and a kitchen sink full of unused dishes sitting there for the whole length of the stay.
The choice between the two comes down mainly to location and breakfast: Itasca for free breakfast and proximity to Busse Woods, Woodfield Mall for walkable shopping and LEGOLAND access. Neither sits especially close to O'Hare compared with the fastest options on this corridor, so travelers prioritizing a quick airport connection over a longer, kitchen-equipped stay should look toward Schaumburg's other business hotels instead of this aparthotel category specifically, which trades airport speed for cost savings over time on a longer stay measured in weeks rather than nights and a single overnight stop.
North Side's aparthotel category is small but purpose-built, both properties flying the Extended Stay America brand and positioned in Itasca and Schaumburg respectively, towns already known on this corridor for office parks and O'Hare-adjacent business travel. This is not a category built for a weekend getaway; it exists specifically for the traveler whose stay runs long enough that a kitchen and a lower nightly rate meaningfully change the economics of the trip, whether that is a relocation, a long assignment, or an extended family visit to the area.