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Travelers pass a CTA train at O'Hare International Airport. More than 1.6 million passengers will travel through Chicago's airports for the Fourth of July holiday travel period from Thursday through Tuesday, the Chicago Department of Aviation said.

Chicago airports to see 1.6 million holiday passengers

June 15, 2018 at 1:44 p.m.

More than 1.6 million passengers will travel through Chicago's airports for the Fourth of July holiday travel period from Thursday through Tuesday, the Chicago Department of Aviation said Thursday. In...

Microsoft's Zune portable media player got eaten alive by the iPod.

There’s a reason all your favorite products are always being discontinued

June 29, 2019 at 7:59 p.m.

Do companies always seem to discontinue new products you like? Do networks cancel your favorite new TV shows? Were you an early adopter of the Zune when everybody else bought...

Your favorite team could earn you credit card rewards

June 15, 2018 at 2:21 p.m.

If you want a rewards credit card that features your favorite professional sports team — the champion Chicago Blackhawks or the Bears, Bulls, Cubs or White Sox — current offers...

"The methods employed by the U.S. legacy carriers to discredit Emirates have been surprising and, frankly, repugnant," said Tim Clark, president of Emirates airline.

Emirates airline lashes back at U.S. carriers

June 16, 2018 at 4:56 p.m.

Emirates airline vigorously defended itself Tuesday against allegations by U.S. airlines that it gets unfair government subsidies, releasing a written rebuttal that goes on for some 200 pages and hosting...

Three Gulf carriers — Emirates, Etihad Airways and Qatar Airways — deny getting unfair subsidies.

Survey favors competition from foreign airlines

June 15, 2018 at 2:25 p.m.

Rhetoric continued over whether three Middle East airlines are unfairly subsidized by their governments with release of a survey late Monday that shows most Americans think U.S. carriers "need more...

United buys stake in Brazilian airline

June 15, 2018 at 2:52 p.m.

United Airlines on Friday said it bought a 5 percent stake in Brazil's third-largest airline for $100 million as a "strategic investment." The stake in Azul Brazilian Airlines gives United...

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Richard Cordray testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington Sept. 12, 2013.

Consumer complaints against banks go online

April 5, 2019 at 7:08 p.m.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Thursday flung open the doors to its massive database of consumer complaints against banks, debt collectors and other institutions. Consumers can read the written...

An airline pilot walks through the terminal at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in Arlington, Virginia, November 6, 2010.

United won’t train pilots in Chicago

August 23, 2019 at 12:37 p.m.

United Airlines has decided to consolidate its two pilot-training centers at an existing site in Denver, instead of building a new one in Chicago, the carrier said Wednesday. Chicago and...

The nose of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner prior to its demonstration flight at the Paris Air Show, in Le Bourget airport, north of Paris, Tuesday, June 16, 2015.

Boeing names veteran insider as new CEO

June 15, 2018 at 2:27 p.m.

Boeing on Tuesday announced that CEO Jim McNerney, who led the aerospace giant for the past decade, will step down July 1. His successor is chief operating officer Dennis A....

Phil Lesh, Bill Kreutzmann, Bob Weir and Mickey Hart perform in 2002 during a reunion concert in East Troy, Wis. The Grateful Dead will perform three shows July 3 to 5 at Soldier Field.

Grateful Dead make Chicago nation’s top July 4th destination

August 19, 2019 at 8:50 a.m.

The Grateful Dead reunion concert over July Fourth weekend has made Chicago the nation's top travel destination and has been a bonanza for city hotels, with bookings more than doubling...

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