Midway

Inland Empire officials criticize L.A.'s terms on Ontario airport

2013-04-03 19:21:00

Inland Empire officials seeking control of LA/Ontario International Airport are balking at an unprecedented demand by Los Angeles that they buy the struggling operation for hundreds of millions of dollars. Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and...

Deadly winter storm heads east after pummeling Midwest

2012-12-21 11:07:00

The first major winter storm of the season continued to pound its way through the Midwest across the Great Lakes on Friday, creating travel chaos just in time for the holiday travel weekend. More than 1,000 airline flights have been canceled in the past...

More for Your Money: Where to find summer travel deals

2012-06-10 00:00:00

Although airfare and hotel rates are up this summer, deals are out there — if you know where to look. Here are some options based on input from Travel-Ticker.com, Priceline.com, Orbitz.com and FlipKey.com. San Francisco When L.A. heats up, the...

Pages of History

2010-07-22 04:33:36

Roots of Redstone family's bitter rift

2007-08-02 00:00:00

Was Sumner Redstone's obsession with the creator of the video game "Mortal Kombat" the root of the unfolding family drama that has pitted the media mogul against his daughter and onetime heir apparent, Shari Redstone? People who know them both suggest...

Southwest offers SFO fares as low as $39

2007-05-14 00:00:00

Southwest Airlines is offering fares as low as $39 each way out of its newest destination, San Francisco International Airport. On sale now, advance-purchase, one-way restricted fares start at $39 to San Diego, $59 to Las Vegas and $99 to Chicago's...

Chicago, city of the uplifted gaze

2004-08-22 00:00:00

By 8:50 a.m., they temporarily had to close the women's restroom at the Chicago ArchiCenter. "There were so many people here already, they had to restock all the toilet paper," said Elaine Rosen, a retired biology teacher from the Streeterville area of...

The World of Travel Keeps On Changing

2002-05-12 00:00:00

If your last summer vacation involved air travel, it was likely a matter of stuffing as much as you could into your carry-on bags, cutting your arrival at the airport as close as possible and trying to cope with the annoying routine of it all. What a...

Ding! puts you on standby for sale fares

2005-04-03 00:00:00

Have you ever heard of a one-hour airfare sale or a sale that's announced in the morning and valid until 8 that night? Although one can imagine an airline trying to sell cut-rate tickets on short notice, it's hard to figure out how they would alert the...

Bargain-fare airlines ply the nation's skies

2004-07-11 00:00:00

One of the biggest surprises in the travel industry is the success of cut-rate airlines. The phenomenon, which accounts for nearly a quarter of all domestic air travel, includes such names as Southwest, JetBlue, Spirit, AirTran, ATA and others. American...

Don't discount the major carriers when it comes to low fares

2004-06-13 00:00:00

JetBlue. Frontier. Southwest. For many travelers, such names are synonymous with savings. It's reasonable to expect low-cost carriers such as these to offer the lowest fares. Reasonable but wrong. You need to shop around. "Low cost" no longer always...

Free Wi-Fi comes to O'Hare, Midway but options limited

2013-05-23 07:08:00

Travelers at O'Hare and Midway airport now have access to free Wi-Fi, but only a few dozen websites. The Chicago Department of Aviation and Boingo, the airports'� Wi-Fi provider, have inked a deal that allows free access to more than 30 websites offering...

Chicago Mayor Edward J. Kelly, center with hat in hand, and a group of prominent officials went up in a UAL plane during a ceremony at Chicago Midway Airport. Printed June 30, 1941

2013-05-23 15:39:56

The coffee shop at Chicago Midway Airport, run by Marshall Fields & Co., was decorated with a modern color scheme of aqua blue and yellow on Feb. 19, 1949. The airport is said to have had the finest eating facilities of any airport in the country.

2013-05-23 10:30:08

Motorcycle policemen escort the plane of Col. Charles Lindbergh as he taxied up to a hanger at the Chicago Municipal Airport (now called Midway International Airport) at 63rd Street and Cicero Avenue after Lindbergh flew over downtown Chicago in August 1927.

2013-05-23 10:04:52