Schaumburg Township, Cook County, Illinois. Schaumburg Township is one of 29 townships in Cook County, Illinois, USA. As of the 2010 census, its population was 131,288. It is the south central township of the Cook County panhandle.
Since there is no true consensus on what a continental divide is, there is no real agreement on where the triple points are. However, the main Continental Divide described in this article is a far more distinctive geological feature than the others and its two main triple points are much more prominent.
My coworker, Peter Sustr, just left Outdoor Industry Association to tackle the Continental Divide Trail, a fabled route that follows the spine of the United States from Canada to Mexico. Perhaps you remember Peter from when I wrote about his fast and light trip through Grand Gulch last year.