Anyone planning to travel to Chicago is in for a shock. Chicago's City Council unanimously voted to create a Tourism Improvement District and raise hotel the hotel tax on rooms within that district to ...

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 ...

Just when you thought that the hare-brained schemes of the Democrats who run our beleaguered big cities couldn’t get goofier, Chicago has passed a new doozy. The Windy City is raising hotel taxes to, ...

Chicago set a record for tourist spending in 2025, the city's tourism marketing organization said Thursday. Choose Chicago said the city welcomed 56.8 million visitors in 2025, generating what city ...