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An estimated one million lights on 200 trees [1] brighten the city's Michigan Avenue, also known as the Magnificent Mile. The festival is hosted by The Magnificent Mile Association, formerly the Greater North Michigan Avenue Association, [ 2 ] and is the third largest parade in the country, according to the chair of the festival.
CHICAGO — One of the country’s oldest holiday traditions will happen in Chicago this week. The 111th City of Chicago Christmas Tree will be lit up Friday night, Nov. 22, during the annual Tree ...
The song "CTA X-mas Train", [4] describing the Holiday Train, by the Snow Angels was the winner of the Chicago Tribune's New Holiday Classics Christmas song contest in 2009. [5] It narrowly avoided being shut down by CTA president Frank Kruesi after the budget cuts of 2004. A spokesman said, "It didn't seem appropriate to devote resources to ...
The Chicago Thanksgiving Parade, "Chicago's Grand Holiday Tradition", is an annual parade produced and presented by the Chicago Festival Association (CFA). It began in 1934 and is held in downtown Chicago on State Street , every Thanksgiving morning from 8:00 am until 11:00 am CST.
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It’s not for nothing that people often sing of Christmastime in the city. Between the festive window displays (we’re looking at you, Macy’s on State Street), the hustle and bustle of holiday ...
The North Central Service (NCS) is a Metra commuter rail line running from Union Station in downtown Chicago through northwestern and far northern suburbs to Antioch, Illinois. In December 2022, the public timetable shows seven weekday departures from Chicago. This line does not run at all on weekends or holidays. [3]
Tivoli Theater. The Tivoli Theatre was a movie palace at 6323 South Cottage Grove Avenue, at East 63rd Street, in the Woodlawn neighborhood of Chicago's South Side.It was the first of the "big three" movie palaces built by the Balaban & Katz theatre chain run by brothers A. J. Balaban, Barney Balaban and their partner Sam Katz, who were also owners of the Rivera Theater (North Side) and the ...