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The Magnificent Mile Lights Festival is an annual event celebrated in Chicago on the Saturday before Thanksgiving. An estimated one million lights on 200 trees [ 1 ] brighten the city's Michigan Avenue, also known as the Magnificent Mile .
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. [38] The Magnificent Mile Lights Festival, presented by BMO Harris Bank, is the annual kick-off to Chicago's Christmas season. [42]
The holiday season kicked into high gear this weekend, with thousands of people visiting downtown Chicago for the Magnificent Mile Festival Parade.
By 1999, the Christkindlmarket had become part of the Magnificent Mile Lights Festival. [2] In recent years, Chicago's Christkindlmarket has become the largest Christmas market in the United States, hosting well over 1 million visitors annually. [2] In 2016, Christkindlmarket expanded to the Chicago suburb of Naperville. [3]
The holiday season kicks into high gear Saturday, as the Magnificent Mile Festival parade steps off in downtown Chicago.
Almost a half-century after opening, Water Tower Place, the once-bustling retail mall at the north end of Chicago's Magnificent Mile, remains shiny marble on the outside, but inside it’s losing ...
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It is bounded by the river on the south, the Magnificent Mile portion of Michigan Avenue on the west, and Lake Michigan on the north and east, according to most sources, although the city of Chicago recognizes only a small portion of this region as Streeterville. Thus, it can be described as the Magnificent Mile plus all land east of it.