It's fine. We made it this far," adds Michaela Duarte, 26, a fellow theater major who has done some production design on the space. While Neufeld's escape room has helped expand his social circle ...

The production design is top-notch: in one room we were at the bottom of a wet elevator shaft, needing to escape before being crushed by the looming elevator car dangling above us. Brilliantly ...

It's all part of "60 to Escape," a new, immersive escape room attraction inside Woodfield Mall in suburban Schaumburg The concept follows similar ones recently opened in Gurnee and Milwaukee ...