Travel
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Meet Chicago Northwest leaders talk tourism, hotel business at annual lunchMay 06, 2015 1:00 am - The tourism and convention bureau for the Northwest suburbs ended its annual luncheon Wednesday with what may sound like an unusual message for a business crowd: Take a ...
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Midwest travel: Need chocolate? Upcoming Long Grove fest is the place to beMay 02, 2015 7:00 am - Chicago Coo-coo for cocoa What makes the world go around? It's chocolate, of course, and you can get your fill at the annual Long Grove Chocolate Festival. Thi...
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Look inside the Four Seasons' new private jumbo jetApr 26, 2015 7:45 am - Spending three weeks touring the world's wonders and staying in four-star hotels is better by private jet - right? Well, naturally. But the Four Seasons is hoping that u...
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Google Maps provides virtual outing to Mandela's island prisonApr 25, 2015 7:32 am - Visits to Robben Island off the coast of Cape Town, where Nelson Mandela spent 18 years in prison and which is now a museum, need to be booked at least two days in advan...
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Selfies changing the way people travelApr 25, 2015 7:00 am - The rise of social media is creating a new breed of travelers for whom the ability to instantly publicize their trip is as important as the experience itself. So-called ...
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Midwest travel: Mother's Day 2015 hotel packages to the rescueApr 25, 2015 7:00 am - Chicago Mother and child reunion The Biggest Loser Resort's Mother's Day package beckons moms and their kids to sample the results-oriented Biggest Loser Resor...
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European airlines compete to release apps for first Apple WatchApr 25, 2015 6:48 am - European airlines British Airways and Air France will be among the first companies competing with applications for the Apple Watch when the device is released this week....
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Midwest travel: Spring Festival ushers in warm weather (we hope)Apr 18, 2015 7:00 am - Chicago Go fly a kite A harbinger of spring in Chicago, the 17th Annual Chicago Kids and Kites Festival returns to Cricket Hill in Lincoln Park for free family...
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Could be summer of roadtrips with cheap gasApr 12, 2015 7:29 am - HOUSTON - Vacations will be a bit cheaper this year with gasoline prices the lowest since 2009. U.S. consumers will pay $1.14 a gallon less this summer than in 2014 and ...
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See Iceland's top sights en route to or from EuropeApr 12, 2015 7:00 am - Second of two parts Such a deal: Fly to Europe and tack on a trip to Iceland at no additional airfare. Since the 1960s, Iceland's budget, no-frills airline, Icelan...