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I drove all 2,448 miles of Route 66. What I wish I had known before starting

By Sage Scott
Jan 11, 2025 4:00 am - Last September, I crossed a dream trip off my bucket list. While I'd driven many sections of Route 66 over the years, I had never tackled the entire 2,448 miles from Chicago to Santa Monica in one trip.
Where to next?: Bike club members plan rides for the new year

By Ralph Banasiak, Along for the Ride
Dec 27, 2024 6:00 am - Bike club members across the Chicago area are anticipating their 2025 riding goals. Clubs offer a built-in advantage: a large pool of riders often possessed with cycling ambitions to match one’s own.
Rush hour at O’Hare and Midway, as turkey countdown begins

By Marni Pyke
Nov 26, 2024 12:10 pm - The Thanksgiving getaway extravaganza has landed, with 1.8 million passengers expected to surge through O’Hare and Midway international airports over the holiday.
A brutally cold air mass is coming. How chilly will it get in your region?

Ben Noll
Nov 26, 2024 10:41 am - The weirdly warm November weather will soon come to a crashing end, thanks to an air mass moving from the Laptev Sea north of Russia — over 4,000 miles away from the U.S....
‘Busiest Thanksgiving ever’: How the TSA plans to handle record air travel

By DAVID KOENIG
Nov 25, 2024 10:52 am - Just as there are good odds the turkey will taste dry, airports and highways are expected to be jam-packed during Thanksgiving week, a holiday period likely to end in another record day for air travel in the United States.
Arthur Frommer, travel guide innovator, has died at 95

By BETH HARPAZ
Nov 19, 2024 7:13 am - Arthur Frommer, whose "Europe on 5 Dollars a Day" guidebooks revolutionized leisure travel by convincing average Americans to take budget vacations abroad, has died. He was 95.
Spirit Airlines filed for bankruptcy. What does that mean for travelers?

By WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS and DAVID KOENIG
Nov 18, 2024 3:22 pm - NEW YORK — Spirit Airlines, the largest budget carrier in the U.S., filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Monday. The airline said customers should not see any disru...
Turkey to go? Here’s the skinny on cheap flights, gas prices and airport security lines

By Marni Pyke
Nov 18, 2024 5:00 am - Thanksgiving is coming like a freight train. How to get over the river and through the woods and keep your sanity.
Holiday travel scams could take you for a ride

Submitted by Better Business Bureau
Nov 17, 2024 5:59 am - This holiday season, travel predictions estimate between 104 million and 115 million people will be on the move. Many of these travelers will be flying, and the Better Business Bureau advises them to be vigilant, especially about a scam targeting the TSA PreCheck program.
Six reasons to escape winter in Palm Springs

By Katherine Rodeghier
Oct 31, 2024 1:33 pm - Remember those bone-chilling days in suburban Chicago last January? I do, and I remember how happy I was to hop on a flight bound for Palm Springs, California, with T-shirts and sandals in my suitcase.

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