Did you land at Midway, O'Hare or one of the outlying airports?
If the wind is blowing the wrong way you use the ILS to get down below the overcast, but then you have to keep the runway in sight and fly around to land the way you came from. I landed at Palwaukee - north of downtown.
SOunds like doing it the hard way. ;-)
I know where Palwaukee is, Iused to work down the road from there.