Travel
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Enrolling in Global Entry worth the time, moneyJun 17, 2016 6:00 am - After a long international flight, most travelers crave a shower and a doughnut or a jog, depending on their disposition. No one wants creeping lines, a puffy face-to-fa...
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Los Alamos app allows users to visit 1940s 'Atomic City'Jun 17, 2016 6:00 am - ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Los Alamos, a once secret city where scientists participated in the nation's classified World War II nuclear development program, can now be experien...
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Midwest travel: Family Fun Fest returns to Chicago's Millennium ParkJun 11, 2016 7:00 am - Chicago Summer in the city Thanks to the return of the Family Fun Festival, every trip downtown is a no-brainer with kids in tow. Enjoy the eye-popping architecture of M...
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Languedoc: Food, art shine in south of France no matter what the weatherJun 10, 2016 6:00 am - MONTPELLIER, France — The sunny south of France means skies of robin's-egg-blue, warm breezes and shirt-sleeve temperatures. Except when it rains. The usually balmy Lang...
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Court clerk's office can take passport photosJun 07, 2016 1:00 am - If you need a photo taken for a passport, you can now head to the Lake County circuit court clerk's office in Waukegan. The clerk's office already offered passport appli...
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Arlington Heights hotels say village must do more to keep visitors in townJun 07, 2016 1:00 am - Arlington Heights hotel managers say they are doing their part for the village's economy by bringing approximately 250,000 people to town each year, but they need offici...
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Return to Cuba: 56 years after leaving, sisters revisit land of their birthJun 05, 2016 3:00 pm - For the past few years, my sister, Clara Basch Stone, and I have been exploring opportunities to travel to Cuba, our birthplace and childhood home. Our father, Gerardo, ...
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Midwest travel: Smoky bones mean Ribfest Chicago June 10-12Jun 04, 2016 7:22 am - Chicago Take a ribbing Chow down on some smoky bones while sipping a cold one at the annual Ribfest Chicago. It all happens in Chicago's Northcenter - where Lincoln Aven...
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How Hawthorn Woods businessman vanquished Mount EverestMay 29, 2016 7:15 am - Editor's note: This story has been updated to correct that about 500 climbers per year reach the summit of Mount Everest. Two years ago, Joel Schauer was about to s...
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Midwest travel: American masters on display in new Art Institute exhibitMay 28, 2016 7:00 am - Chicago Free falling “America After the Fall: Painting in the 1930s,” a new exhibit opening at the Art Institute of Chicago, features 50 seminal works by Edward Hopper (...