Travel
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Vacationers sweet on Mackinac IslandJun 16, 2013 5:00 am - “Plug your ears!” We dutifully obey and in a moment we are glad as the boom of the cannon reverberates through the crowd at Fort Mackinac. Cannon firings on the bluff ov...
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5 free things in Cincinnati, from bridges to parksJun 15, 2013 6:00 am - CINCINNATI — With dueling nicknames of The Queen City for its beauty and Porkopolis for its love of, well, pork, Cincinnati cannot be pigeonholed. After decades of decl...
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Buenos Aires launches tours honoring Argentine popeJun 15, 2013 6:00 am - BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — You can see the streets where he grew up and played soccer, the church where Jorge Bergoglio prayed as a teenager and the cathedral where the m...
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Divers volunteer on coral restoration in Florida KeysJun 15, 2013 5:45 am - KEY LARGO, Fla. — Ken Nedimyer likes to say that he breathes new life into coral reefs. In fact, he’s been doing it for more than a decade, and recreational divers are ...
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Buffalo Grove native conquers Mount EverestJun 11, 2013 5:15 am - Buffalo Grove native Dave Roskelley spent the better part of a decade training to climb Mount Everest, the tallest peak on Earth. It's a dangerous expedition. Hundreds h...
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On the road: Aurora opens RiverEdge with Blues on the FoxJun 09, 2013 6:00 am - Blues on the Fox It's time for the grand opening of the RiverEdge Park Music Garden in downtown Aurora, a venue inspired by Chicago's Millennium Park and Northerly ...
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Using appliances in Europe can be a power struggleJun 09, 2013 6:00 am - When Pam Fink toured Europe last month, she found it difficult to stay current. She wasn't talking about the events of the day. She was taking about her hairdryer. “It n...
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Disney World amps up interactivityJun 09, 2013 5:45 am - LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — The Disney universe is populated by a countless array of heroes and villains. Think Simba and Scar, Peter Pan and Captain Hook, Cruella De Vil a...
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New Caterpillar center pulls its weight with visitorsJun 09, 2013 5:00 am - PEORIA, Ill. — Here's a place where the word caterpillar does not refer to fuzzy little insects. The new Caterpillar Visitors Center is all about the roaring black-and-y...
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Summer ushers in new attractions at theme parksJun 09, 2013 5:00 am - ORLANDO, Fla. — If there's ever been a summer to visit a theme park — or two, or three — this is it. High-speed wooden roller coasters? Thrilling, sense-assaulting rides...