Chicago has Consulates from all over the world. Not Embassies. Consulates. Those are trade representatives that are one step below the rank of Ambassadors.
In the 1950s, my husband lived at the home of the British Consul General posted in Chicago when he was a Freshman at Northwestern U. The British Consul General and his family were family friends of my husband’s family, and they offered my husband a “free” place to live while in school in exchange for work around their home and at the Consulate. My husband served as bartender at consulate parties and has many hilarious tales about the experience.
All was well until NU found out where he was living, and they yanked him back into the dorms. Pleas from the Consul General’s wife, “But we think of him as our son...” did not overcome NU’s strict rule at the time that no undergrad should live off campus unless, with a blood relative.
But the stories of shoveling the various diplomats into taxis and limos because they were too drunk to walk have regaled this family for more than 50 years.
“But the stories of shoveling the various diplomats into taxis and limos because they were too drunk to walk have regaled this family for more than 50 years.”
My husband went to a few parties hosted by a British High Commissioner. It was pretty much de rigeur to pass out drunk on the lawn.