Travel
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Where to next?: Bike club members plan rides for the new yearDec 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.
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Rush hour at O’Hare and Midway, as turkey countdown beginsNov 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.
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A brutally cold air mass is coming. How chilly will it get in your region?
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....
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‘Busiest Thanksgiving ever’: How the TSA plans to handle record air travel
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.
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Arthur Frommer, travel guide innovator, has died at 95
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Spirit Airlines filed for bankruptcy. What does that mean for travelers?
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Turkey to go? Here’s the skinny on cheap flights, gas prices and airport security linesNov 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.
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Holiday travel scams could take you for a rideNov 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.
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Six reasons to escape winter in Palm SpringsOct 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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An elevator malfunction killed 1 and trapped 12 at a Colorado tourist mine. The cause is still unknown