There are several places to go in or near St. Louis to see lights around the holidays. One of the first was at Anheuser-Busch holiday light display at their St. Louis Brewery located at 1200 Lynch Street. It's free and open from Late November to early January (ending on January 4th). It's the 29th year [...]
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Chinese New Year with Red Moon at Navy Pier
Instead of going to a parade in Chinatown or off of Argyle, this year I went to Navy Pier. Navy Pier partnered with Red Moon and the Cubs to put on the event. Red Moon is a theater troupe in the city. They utilized the room at the end of the pier. For the year [...]
Zoolights
I think, almost every zoo has some form or another of zoo lights during the winter holidays. I've been to the one hosted by the St.Louis zoo, but this year I went to the zoolights at Lincoln Park zoo. The Lincoln Park zoo is free and for their Zoolights they are open until 9pm. If [...]
CTA holiday train
Every year the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) puts together a holiday train. These trains are elusive since they usually only run maybe once or twice between set times per line per day. The trains, depending on the time can get packed, especially if it's the time people are getting off work. This is usually between [...]
The Walnut Room
The Walnut room is a restaurant in the south loop's Macy's. (or Marshall Fields as it use to be called) During the holiday season the side walk on state street is packed with people looking at the window displays. The Walnut room is on the 7th floor and has been open since 1907. It's a [...]
Midnight Circus at Franken Plaza for Chicagoween
This Halloween the city of Chicago's Daley Plaza was turned into Franken Plaza, a plaza for Halloween fun. There were different tents with little shops, selling sweets, masks and other random goods. They had dyed the fountain orange and had set up a photo booth that was really just a person taking your photo and [...]