A Chicago Christmas: Celebrate The Season in Chicago!
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Visit Buckingham Fountain
Buckingham Fountain Decorated With Christmas Lights
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Did you know that Buckingham Fountain was once the official start of Route 66? Start your Chicago Christmas with a trip to see the beautiful Christmas lights surrounding the fountain every holiday season. Although the water does not run during the winter months, it is still a beautiful site in Grant Park. What if you took your family Christmas photo in front of the fountain this year?
Buckingham Fountain's official website
- Chicago Park District: Buckingham Fountain
- This majestic and historic fountain, one of the largest in the world, is located at Columbus Drive (301 East) and Congress Parkway (500 South) in Grant Park on Chicago's beautiful Lake Michigan lakefront.
Shop The Magnificant Mile
Michigan Avenue Shopping and Lights
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There's no better place to do your Christmas shopping in Chicago than the Magnificent Mile! With blocks of shops of every kind, you'll be sure to find something for everyone on your shopping list!
Magnificent Mile's official website
- The Magnificent Mile - Feel Magnificent - North Michigan Avenue, Chicago
- Welcome to Chicago's Magnificent Mile. Where a unique urban experience awaits you!. Featuring four annual events and world-class shopping, dining, lodging and lesiure entertainment, chicago's Magnificent Mile has something for everyone.
Carol To The Animals At Lincoln Park Zoo
Lions, Tigers, Bears and Chicago Christmas Cheer!
Buy at AllPosters.comEvery year, the Lincoln Park Zoo hosts "Zoolights", a celebration involving thousands of lights and decorations around the zoo and activities like "caroling to the animals", ice sculptures, and more!
Lincoln Park Zoo's official website
- Lincoln Park Zoo
- Lincoln Park Zoo - Chicago's zoo!
CTA Holiday Train
A Chicago Transit Authority Tradition
Books About Christmas In Chicago
Deck the Halls with Chicago Christmas Cheer!
Christmas Ornaments with a Chicago spirit!
What's your favorite Chicago Christmas tradition?
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favored1
Jan 11, 2012 @ 5:26 pm | delete
- I;ve never been to Chicago, but it looks like a beautiful place to visit over the Christmas season.
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aesta1
Jan 10, 2012 @ 9:28 am | delete
- Love to be there for Christmas.
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webgain
Dec 21, 2011 @ 1:03 am | delete
- Chicago is nice... I really enjoyed your lens. great
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Lifeboost
Dec 7, 2011 @ 2:55 pm | delete
- It's been a lot of years since I was last in Chicago, but I've always counted it as one of my favourite cities in the world! Thanks for the nostalgia. Blessed. :)
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TamaraKajari
Dec 1, 2011 @ 3:51 pm | delete
- Chicago lights are so nice and festive. Would like to travel for the holiday season someday :)
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Chicagoans LOVE to Decorate For Christmas
The Best Christmas Decorations in Chicagoland: Your Guide to More Than 200 Spectacular Holiday Displays
Amazon Price: $44.21 (as of 05/30/2012)
From Publishers Weekly
This volume of winter wonderland of color and light offers a festive tour of downtown Chicago and the surrounding counties. Author Edsey, a Chicago native who has for 10 years hosted holiday bus tours around that city, puts her hometown savvy to excellent use: photos of displays are accompanied by stories about the people who create them, viewing hours, directions and maps. Edsey also provides a history of outdoor holiday decorations, noting that Americans' endeavors echo those of the ancient Romans, who festooned their homes to celebrate the new year. Edsey's visual tour of holiday-themed Chicagoland visits well-known landmarks like Navy Pier and the Art Institute of Chicago, plus neighborhoods like the one that's home to Candy Cane Lane, where, from the mid-1950s to the early 1970s, a parade of 10-foot candy canes stood in residents' front lawns. Readers inspired to create or augment their own display will appreciate the book's many tips-for example, how to disguise floodlights as giant presents-and its appendix of suppliers.
Celebrate The Season, Chicago-style
Season of Joy: Chicago Celebrates the Holidays
Amazon Price: $15.00 (as of 05/30/2012)
For the last five years, the book "Chicago Christmas: One hundred years of Christmas Memories" has connected many Chicagoans, natives and transplants, with memories of the faces and places of their youth. In that time author Jim Benes has personally connected with his readers through book signings large and small. The question that has often come up is: Why isn't the year I was born in the book? What happened that year? With his new book , Jim brings not just the answers to these questions, but the opportunity to belong to the Season in new and meaningful ways. Jim offers both a window into the past and a doorway into the ongoing tradition that is the Chicago Holiday experience.
Visiting Chicago For Christmas?
Chicago Tourism Resources
