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hide. The Chicago Thanksgiving Parade, "Chicago's Grand Holiday Tradition", is an annual parade produced and presented by the Chicago Festival Association (CFA). It is held in downtown Chicago, Illinois, every Thanksgiving morning from 8:00 am until 11:00 am CST. It is televised locally on WCIU-TV; from 2007 to 2019 the event was carried on WGN ...
Aside from the numerous lights and decorations that line up the Magnificent Mile, the Lights Festival also features a colorful parade, from Oak Street on the North to Wacker Drive/the Chicago River on the South, en route to the lighting of the city's Christmas tree. The parade showcases 40 floats with huge helium-filled balloons and is led by ...
The tradition of lighting the trees of The Magnificent Mile to start the Christmas season extends more than forty years. More than one million lights are lit and fireworks follow the event. The Magnificent Mile Lights Festival, presented by BMO Harris Bank, is the annual kick-off to Chicago's Christmas season.
Christmas Vacation Official Trailer #1 - (1989) HD. Watch on. 1. National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation (1989) Who’s in it: Chevy Chase, Beverly D'Angelo, Juliette Lewis. Rating: PG-13 ...
Bradley: Bradley Christmas Fantasy Parade; Chicago: State Street Thanksgiving Day Parade/McDonald's Thanksgiving Parade; Chicago: Magnificent Mile Lights Festival Tree-Lighting Parade; Granite City, Illinois Santa's Holiday Avenue Parade Every year on the Saturday before Thanksgiving. Havana: Christmas Parade; O'Fallon: Illuminated Christmas Parade
Christmas Eve. Location (s) Chicago, United States. Inaugurated. 1996. Most recent. 2023. Christkindlmarket is a Christmas market held annually at Daley Plaza in Chicago, Illinois, United States. The festival attracts more than 1 million visitors each year.
The market will be open from 4 to 9 p.m. Fridays and 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays. The first of Quincy's Christmas decorations go up Thursday, Nov. 2, 2023, in advance of the city's ...
The first official Christmas tree in the city of Chicago was installed in 1913 in Grant Park and lit on Christmas Eve by then-mayor Carter Harrison. [1] This first tree was a 35-foot (11 m) tall spruce tree. [1] In December 1956 the official tree, though still installed in Grant Park (at Michigan Avenue and Congress Parkway), was not an ...