In today’s Chicago, buzzwords such as “equitable” and “engagement” are virtual necessities if you want to please City Hall. Sometimes they have worth; sometime they make no sense at all. And even ...

Regarding the editorial “Chicago tourism fundamentally is about downtown, not all 77 neighborhoods” (Nov. 16): The world knows Chicago as a city of communities, each and every one with its own unique ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tourism numbers are up, and the city's marketing organization, Choose Chicago, hopes to build on the momentum for 2026. But there ...

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After downtown hotel owners banded together to offer to tax themselves and raise money to boost tourism, aldermen advanced ...

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Urban historian Shermann “Dilla” Thomas teamed up with Ancestry on the March tour, which honors women whose contributions to Chicago — and the world — are often overlooked.

Illinois Hotel & Lodging Association President Michael Jacobson is proud to call Chicago an outlier when it comes to new tourism figures that show the city bagged nearly $3 billion in hotel stay ...

Tourism numbers are up, and the city's marketing organization, Choose Chicago, hopes to build on the momentum for 2026. But there are challenges marketing to international tourists because of the ...