Holiday Weekend in Chicago
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Holiday Weekend in Chicago
Heading to Chicago for a weekend next month... Was wondering of 'holiday' things to do downtown? Last time we visited Macy's Walnut Room and also the outside ChrisKindal (sp?) Mart and indoor Winter Wonderland at Navy Pier. Will definitely visit the Mart again but am curious of any other special events/wonders to see this time around...!... Appreciate any and all tips
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You've got a few of them...also check out the window displays at Macys. Back in the day, when it was Marshall Field's, the displays were a lot better. But they're still entertaining.
Go ice skating in Millennium Park if it's open.
Maybe see if you can find a CTA Holiday Train.
Go ice skating in Millennium Park if it's open.
Maybe see if you can find a CTA Holiday Train.
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Quite a few activities were discussed in this thread.
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Thanks Dave! And ninja138, I don't know how I missed that!!! Appreciate you linking
Anything special happen in the pedway areas on weekends, just wondering...
Anything special happen in the pedway areas on weekends, just wondering...
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Nonetheless, areas of the pedway we visited last time were pretty impressive..~ I suppose it probably gets too crowded during the week for any displays/decorating, when we were there (on a Sunday) it was empty
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The Goodman Theater's A CHRISTMAS CAROL is a classic. Half-price tickets may be available at hottix.org.
http://www.goodmantheatre.org/season....aspx?prod=110
http://www.goodmantheatre.org/season....aspx?prod=110
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If you're going to be in Chicago on the 17th-24th, the Music Box theater has sing-a-long showings of "White Christmas." The Music Box is a vintage theater, located just north of downtown. And the showings have Santa Claus and a Christmas music show.
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Not sure where the op is staying or if it's mentioned in the other thread, but something so simple as an after dark walk from the river north to Oak Street on Michigan Avenue (and/or vice versa) is a beautiful site during the holidays. The city and most businesses do white lights exclusively. A ride in a hansom cab is another option.
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Just wanted to post a follow-up to our Dec. trip
Due to lengthy train delays we changed some of our pre-planning but still had a whirlwind weekend with some Michigan Ave shopping, visiting Millenium Park (beautiful in winter and very impressed with city snow removal of all the downtown parks!), enjoyed holiday decorations not only in the pedway (believe it or not) but Macy's on State and a music-themed huge tree in their Walnut Room, quick cab ride in pouring rain by Navy Pier after enjoying hot wine at ChristKindlMart, freezing visit to Lincoln Park Zoo haha but lights were worth it and enjoyed seeing the building exhibits, especially the primate building where they were all settling down and fixing bedding for the night!! Couple of BIG drinks at the Hyatt Regency, also decorated nice inside and visit topped off before we left with some deserts at Grand Lux Cafe, lucky to get the room surrounded by windows and twinkling outside lights.
Certainly hope to go again in a December and do some of the other holiday festivities mentioned in this thread!
As our weekend there turned out to be the blizzard weekend <!>, we were glad to have been Amtrak riders and actually quite a few airline travellers ended up being train travellers too lol Lengthy delays going home as well but, hey, at least the train was running
Due to lengthy train delays we changed some of our pre-planning but still had a whirlwind weekend with some Michigan Ave shopping, visiting Millenium Park (beautiful in winter and very impressed with city snow removal of all the downtown parks!), enjoyed holiday decorations not only in the pedway (believe it or not) but Macy's on State and a music-themed huge tree in their Walnut Room, quick cab ride in pouring rain by Navy Pier after enjoying hot wine at ChristKindlMart, freezing visit to Lincoln Park Zoo haha but lights were worth it and enjoyed seeing the building exhibits, especially the primate building where they were all settling down and fixing bedding for the night!! Couple of BIG drinks at the Hyatt Regency, also decorated nice inside and visit topped off before we left with some deserts at Grand Lux Cafe, lucky to get the room surrounded by windows and twinkling outside lights.
Certainly hope to go again in a December and do some of the other holiday festivities mentioned in this thread!
As our weekend there turned out to be the blizzard weekend <!>, we were glad to have been Amtrak riders and actually quite a few airline travellers ended up being train travellers too lol Lengthy delays going home as well but, hey, at least the train was running