Category: Travel

Paris puts Park Ridge artist’s statue of Lincoln on display near Champs Elysee

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Usually the well-worn path is one-way, from France to the United States, for high culture and haute cuisine alighting here via the Statue of Liberty, art galleries, fancy restaurants and bakeries. But when the course was reversed, in this instance from Park Ridge to the streets of Paris, there was cause for celebration on Saturday, June 15, via French champagne, charcuterie trays and macarons at the local Kalo Foundation for the most all-American of symbols – a bust of Abraham Lincoln. Park Ridge art patrons gathered at a white-painted converted home just northwest of downtown to hear a story that […]

Alabama’s Gulf Coast offers uncrowded beaches with sand that doesn’t get hot — a chill alternative to Florida

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For much of my youth, Central Florida was synonymous with summer vacation. Tampa Bay, Clearwater, and Orlando were where I spent many summers at my Aunt Nancy’s condo and had my theme park rites of passage. When my husband and I made a road trip from Chicago to Panama City, I found myself in a part of the South I’d never known: the panhandle.   We spent a few days in this new territory, which was smaller and more local than Clearwater. So, when I had the opportunity to take a right to Alabama’s Gulf Coast instead of a left […]

United flight to Seattle aborts takeoff at O’Hare after engine fire

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A flight bound for Seattle aborted takeoff Monday afternoon at O’Hare International Airport due to an engine fire, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. No one was injured after the incident on United Flight 2091, which happened around 2 p.m. The Airbus A320 was towed to the gate, and passengers deplaned, the FAA said. The […]