argh! frustration! FS9 ATC insanity

I'm flying a flight plan from KSEA to KORD, in a B727 (using Captain Sim's Legendary 727). If you aren't familiar with this A/C, it's a relatively faithful reproduction of original (and rather aged) 727-100 and 727-200. Aged means, no FMC, no GPS (well, it does have the in-built FS9 GPS, but I refuse to use it for authenticity reasons), no auto-throttle and a VERY simplistic auto-pilot. Two NAV radios, but only a single HSI and DME to navigate by.So, all is going well, I'm at FL290 and on-course. ATC tells me to descend and maintain 17000. No problem, I follow all their instructions to the letter. They vector me around for a little bit, hand me off to chicago approach and tell me to expect runway 14R. Fine, I pull up the approach plate for 14R, tune my radios, setup the HSI, setup the ADF for marker reference. I guess I'm too far out to "hear" ILS 14R, I've got no LOC and no DME yet. Approach vectors me to 110deg and tells me to maintain 5000 until established, and contact tower. All perfectly fine, except I still have no signal from the ILS. I contact tower and am cleared straight in. 5-7 minutes go by and I STILL have no ILS. Finally, I get ILS and I am 25 miles out, but the loc is way off to the right. So I turn right by about 30 degrees to try to intercept it. No luck, by the time I get near it I am *above* the glidescope and about 5 nm from the runway. At 240knots in this A/C, there is no way I can properly setup for following the gs down, get my airspeed down and accomplish everything necessary to land. So it's time to "go missed" and give it another shot. Obviously I passed over the ILS course FAR before I was actually in range of the ILS radio.Why, oh why, does ATC vector in such a fashion that there is no possible way to intercept the localizer?