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 ...

On the day before hotels in fourteen different wards start collecting a 1.5-percentage-point increase in the tax on hotel ...

Jen Sabella, the Director of Strategy and co-founder of Block Club Chicago, joins Bob Sirott to share the latest Chicago neighborhood stories. She provides details on: Chicago’s Puerto Rican ...

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(The Center Square) – 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 ...

Chicago hotel guests booked over 3.5 million rooms from June to August, breaking a tourism record set in 2019. Why it matters: Despite President Trump's constant putdowns of Chicago as a violent ...

The mayor was present at Choose Chicago's annual meeting Thursday, where it was announced that the city wants to increase its number of visitors to 70 million a year. Through its partnership with the ...

Chicago's top public relations leaders are trying to change the narrative around the city from crime to culture. CBS News Chicago spent an afternoon at the Choose Chicago roundtable, where the panel ...