Starting February 1st, travelers without a REAL ID or another acceptable form of identification will be hit with a $45 fee just to get through airport security.
If you're planning a vacation anytime soon, here's your friendly remind to double-check what's actually allowed through TSA before you end up saying goodbye to your favorite hair dryer.
The TSA just listed the strangest prohibited items people tried to bring with them through airport security checkpoints last year-- and one was an item that was confiscated from right here in Minnesota.
I recently told you about Chicago's O'Hare airport coming in dead last among 20 mega-airports for customer satisfaction, according to a survey done by JD Power and Associates.
The answer to the question "So, are we done with masks?" depends on what you might have in mind. Illinois' mask mandate is gone (with scattered exceptions), but traveling, and how you plan to travel, is a different story.