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Travelers are screened by Transportation Security Administration workers at a security checkpoint at O'Hare International Airport.

Dumb luck apparently is more effective than the TSA

August 23, 2019 at 12:35 p.m.

The Transportation Security Administration has had some problems lately. In recent months, the agency charged with protecting our nation's flights and airports has been dinged for the following: *More than...

Valentin Dimitrov gives a chair massage at Terminal Getaway's spa at O'Hare International Airport's Terminal 3.

O’Hare airport spa relieves flying stress

August 23, 2019 at 12:36 p.m.

A chair massage at an airport is not like most other chair massages. For instance, while sitting there with your head buried and a pair of blissful hands kneading your...

Former Goose Island brewmaster Greg Hall, pictured at the brewery taproom, was called upon to create the first beer in the alumni beer series, in which former brewers return to make a special beer.

Goose Island makes beer with its former brewers

June 15, 2018 at 3:03 p.m.

When Goose Island Beer Co. decided to launch a series of beers with some of the alumni who have laid hands on its brewing equipment through the years, there was...

Half Acre forced to change beer label again

June 15, 2018 at 2:51 p.m.

First it was Heyoka. Then it was Senita. Now, it's GoneAway. Half Acre Brewing Co.'s award-winning India pale ale is getting its third name in less than a year after...

Outside magazine's Jonah Ogles returns to the Manistee National Forest for his guy trips.

4 real guys offer their advice on finding the ultimate guy trip

August 23, 2019 at 12:32 p.m.

What's in a guy trip? Adventure. Activity. Good food. Even better beer. New experiences. And fishing helps. We asked four guys well acquainted with the joys of the guy trip...

Illinois beer bill passes; will allow craft brewers to grow

June 15, 2018 at 4:27 p.m.

A bill expected to boost the state's beer production is headed to the governor's desk after passing the Illinois House on Tuesday. The House signed off on the bill 87-20...

Visitors can sit at the lunch counter exhibit at the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis.

National Civil Rights Museum gets a poignant makeover

August 23, 2019 at 12:33 p.m.

Whatever you might have learned about slavery in school, the revamped National Civil Rights Museum (450 Mulberry St., 901-521-9699, http://www.civilrightsmuseum.org) turns it into a gut punch. As a result of...

With its inviting common areas, the Freehand in Chicago is another example of the "lifestyle" trend permeating the hotel industry, even among old stalwarts.

Hotel industry gets comfy with the ‘lifestyle’ concept

August 23, 2019 at 12:31 p.m.

There's a word attached to virtually every new hotel these days, and it isn't "vacation," "travel" or even "bed." It's "lifestyle." New and refurbished hotels increasingly tout the experience they...

Fountainhead Market is like Fountainhead bar to go

June 15, 2018 at 4:36 p.m.

Fountainhead, which has grown into one of the city's go-to beer and whiskey bars in recent years, is now to-go. Fountainhead Market, which sits one door east of Fountainhead bar...

Two Brothers Domaine Dupage French Country Ale is June's Beer of the Month.

Two Brothers Domaine DuPage a classic Chicago craft beer

June 16, 2018 at 5:31 p.m.

What it is: In the Chicago craft beer cannon, Domaine DuPage constitutes an oldie but a goodie — a very goodie. Launched in 1999, long before the current wave of...

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