The free display in Olin Park is open from dusk to dawn. Candy canes are handed out till 10 p.m.
The season-long lights festival includes more than 500,000 lights throughout downtown's parks and streets.
Admission to the annual display of 2.5 million lights at the Lincoln Park Zoo is $7-$12 per person. Tickets are free on most Mondays. Reserve time slots in advance.
This satellite of the famous downtown Christmas market is held outside Wrigley Field.
In Riverside Park, see a holiday display of 3 million lights with music. It opens with a parade and fireworks, and Santa and reindeer are there every night through Dec. 22, with a live Nativity and carriage rides some nights. There is an ice rink with free use of skates, and free s'mores at fire pits.
In this town on Grand Traverse Bay, there's music from 10:30 p.m., and a large illuminated cherry drops 115 feet at midnight.
The all-ages party in this Lake Michigan beach town includes music, dancing, a beer tent and a lighted ball drop followed by fireworks.
This suburb of Chicago with Polish roots celebrates the new year by dropping a 10-foot illuminated pierogi, or filled dumpling, into a boiling cauldron at midnight. There will also be music and fireworks.
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