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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,...

Travelers maneuver a walkway near Terminal 1 on Nov. 21, 2022, at O'Hare International Airport. Chicago-based United Airlines expects O'Hare to be its busiest airport for the Thanksgiving holiday weekend, with more than 650,000 customers anticipated for the holiday.

Chicago highways, O’Hare among busiest sites for Thanksgiving travel, experts warn. Here’s how to prepare.

By Ariel Cheung

November 22, 2022 at 3:09 p.m.

Chicago highways are expected to be among the busiest in the days leading up to...

There are 30 types of exotic fruits growing on the 46- acre Lydgate Farms.

Visit Kauai to tour, taste through one of America’s only working chocolate farms

By Jessica Yadegaran

November 22, 2022 at 4:24 p.m.

In a quiet clearing on the lush, tropical fruit and chocolate plantation of Lydgate Farms,...

Bob Iger, chairman and chief executive officer of The Walt Disney Company, speaks during an Economic Club of New York event in Midtown Manhattan on October 24, 2019, in New York.

Bob Iger returns as Disney CEO in surprise move

By Roger Simmons

November 21, 2022 at 8:32 a.m.

Bob Iger is returning to lead the Walt Disney Co. effective immediately, the company said...

The Tidewater hotel is elevated above a channel of flowing tidal waters on Vinalhaven Island, Maine.

A trip to coastal Maine brings to mind Lake Superior’s North Shore — to an extent

By Simon Peter Groebner

November 16, 2022 at 5:00 a.m.

Overheard while boarding the flight home from Portland to Minneapolis: Flight attendant: "How was Maine?"...

Arriving passengers move toward the baggage claim area at Philadelphia International Airport in Philadelphia on July 1, 2022.

Flying home for the holidays will cost you more this year

By Associated Press

November 14, 2022 at 5:10 p.m.

People still looking to book trips home to visit family or take a vacation during...

A worker in protective clothing keeps watch as residents wearing face masks stand near metal barriers set up around shuttered shop houses that were locked down as part of COVID-19 controls in Beijing on Thursday, Nov. 10, 2022.

China eases some quarantine for travelers

By baiduhai

November 11, 2022 at 6:43 a.m.

Travelers arriving in China will spend less time in quarantine under changes to sweeping anti-virus...

Passengers look out over the Missouri River as the Miss Augusta cruise ship departs on Sunday, Oct. 18, 2022, for a cruise in Augusta, Missouri.

New businesses nudge Missouri town toward becoming the Napa Valley of the Midwest

By St. Louis Post-Dispatch

November 10, 2022 at 6:52 a.m.

Years ago, the town of Augusta had three bakeries. But for a long time until...

Ski guide 2022: What’s new up north at 6 Midwestern ski resorts

By Brian E. Clark

November 9, 2022 at 5:00 a.m.

While the Midwest may not have 3,000-foot descents like some resorts in the Rockies, it's...

The Airbnb app icon is displayed on an iPad screen in Washington, D.C., on May 8, 2021.

Airbnb will make cleaning fees more transparent for travelers

By The New York Times

November 8, 2022 at 4:00 p.m.

Alea Simone was checking out of an Airbnb in Shreveport, Louisiana, where the property's host...

Hotdoggers Abbey Rank and Keila Garza ride around in the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile as it visits Los Angeles.

Hotdogging along Pacific Coast Highway in the West Coast Wienermobile

By Julia Carmel

November 1, 2022 at 5:00 a.m.

It was just another weenie Wednesday for Abbey Rank and Keila Garza. They woke up...