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The Chicago skyline backdrops the Chicago Jazz Festival at Millennium Park’s Pritzker Pavilion on Sept. 4, 2026. (Chris Sweda/baiduhai)

Conde Nast Traveler readers name Chicago ‘Best Big City’ for 10th year in a row

By Robert Channick

October 6, 2026 at 3:25 p.m.

Conde Nast Traveler received nearly 800,000 votes for this year’s Readers’ Choice Awards, which cover...

Olivia Estrada, the on board manager, carries plates of food to the dome car for guests aboard a Patrick Henry Creative Promotions private rail car as it travels from Chicago, Illinois, to St. Louis, Missouri, on May 19, 2026. Private train cars may seem like a relic of the past, but for some rail fans, nothing beats having — or renting — your own sleeper car. (Jamie Kelter Davis/The New York Times)

The quiet allure of private rail

By The New York Times News Service Syndicate

October 2, 2026 at 6:15 p.m.

Private rail cars traveled 429,000 miles on Amtrak in fiscal year 2025, according to the...

Cary Sabados shops for chocolate at Hotel Chocolat in Lakeview on Feb. 12, 2026. This Lakeview location, opened last April, was the first Chicago store. (Eileen T. Meslar/baiduhai)

Chicago-based Hotel Chocolat going nationwide with airport concessions, grocery stores and new retail markets

By Robert Channick

September 23, 2026 at 12:37 p.m.

This fall, Hotel Chocolat will pop up at 49 airports, hit the shelves at Wegmans,...

An aircraft approaches the airport in Frankfurt, Germany, as the sun rises on Thursday, Aug. 27, 2020. With more and more tourists coming back from vacation rising numbers over Covid-19 infections are expected all over Germany. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)

August vacation in the time of COVID has a silver lining

By Bloomberg News

August 27, 2020 at 2:45 p.m.

Many families across America would usually be packing up right about now, getting ready for...

WAIT FOR A SPORTING EVENTS | <a href="https://www.theactivetimes.com/extreme-weather-pro-sports-athletes"target="_blank">Pro athletes have endured a lot</a> for the sake of the game, however this global health pandemic has upended the spring and summer sporting season. Currently, Major League Baseball has not announced a ticket refund policy, and the league intends to play as many games as possible when the season begins. The NHL and NBA have both been similarly mum on refund policies as they navigate the possibility of a season with empty stands and stadiums.

Celebrity Travel: Go away with … Wonho

By Jae-Ha Kim

August 27, 2020 at 2:40 p.m.

For his debut solo single, pop star Wonho decided to take charge from the get-go....

Rick Steves’ Europe: Greece’s underrated Peloponnese Peninsula

By Rick Steves

August 27, 2020 at 12:22 p.m.

As we've had to postpone our travels because of the pandemic, I believe a weekly...

FILE - In this Saturday, Aug. 8, 2020 file photo people on the beach at Biarritz, southwestern France. The hot weather is expected to last for several days across the country. Britain will require all people arriving from France to isolate for 14 days - an announcement that throws the plans of tens of thousands of holiday makers into chaos. The government said late Thursday Aug. 13, 2020 that France is being removed from the list of nations exempted from quarantine requirements because of a rising number of coronavirus infections. (AP Photo/Bob Edme, File)

Bare breasts on French beaches? You can, despite police warnings

By The New York Times

August 27, 2020 at 10:54 a.m.

The scene was anodyne: Women were sunbathing on a beach in southwestern France last week,...

Tigger entertains guests wearing masks as required to attend the official reopening day of the Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World on July 11.

Orlando man charged with hitting Disney security guard in fight over COVID-19 mask rule

By Gabrielle Russon

August 27, 2020 at 2:35 p.m.

An Orlando man struck an Epcot security guard when he was reminded to follow the...

The Rev. Wheeler Parker Jr., center, Emmett Till's cousin, talks at a ceremony commemorating the 60th anniversary of Till's death at Burr Oak Cemetery in Alsip on Aug. 28, 2015. To his right are Calandrian Kemp, mother of George Kemp Jr.; Kadiatou Diallo, mother of Amadou Diallo, and Geneva Reed-Veal, mother of Sandra Bland.

Remembering slain teen Emmett Till in his hometown of Chicago via civil rights tourism and a mobile app

By Alexandra Marvar

September 1, 2020 at 12:16 p.m.

Sixty-five years after the lynching of a child from Chicago, a new mobile app paves...

The Birdhouse is an open-air lodging option at the Suwannee Cabin Sanctuary on Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2020. <a href="https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/34939135">Airbnb.com</a>

Pictures: Florida’s most unique Airbnbs

By Patrick Connolly

August 26, 2020 at 4:03 p.m.

As a vacation destination, Florida has no shortage of unique lodging, from houseboats to treehouses...

Meet the National Parks’ ‘Ranger of the Lost Art’

By New York Times

August 26, 2020 at 12:18 p.m.

Doug Leen, 74, has made it his life's work to track down as many original...

Travelers wear masks June 16, 2020, as they wait at the American Airlines ticket counter in Terminal 3 at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago. On Aug. 25, American said it will cut 19,000 jobs in October unless it receives more federal aid.

American Airlines plans 19,000 furloughs, layoffs in October as federal aid runs out

By Associated Press

August 25, 2020 at 4:08 p.m.

American Airlines said Tuesday it will eliminate 19,000 jobs in October as it struggles with...

Expedia promised to refund my airline ticket. Why hasn’t it? Travel Troubleshooter investigates.

By King Features Syndicate

August 25, 2020 at 12:01 p.m.

After Hari Sharma's colleague gets injured on a trip to Papua New Guinea, he asks...