Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Here’s a look back at the warmest, coldest, wettest and snowiest Christmas holidays in Chicago, going back to 1872. Data is from ...

Chicago’s official 2024 Christmas tree is lit in a ceremony in Millennium Park. The 53-foot Colorado blue spruce was planted 50 years ago by former Logan Square homeowner Jim Mulligan. Thomas Vang, ...

Jody Mason didn’t need to be the daughter of an Indiana tree farmer to know the massive spruce in her front yard would make for a great Christmas tree, because all who visited would tell her so.

Chicago will be a bit merrier and brighter beginning this weekend, as the city’s official Christmas tree will be lit up for the season. The city’s Christmas tree, a 68-foot Norway Spruce, was ...

This week, the Chicago area went from 50 degree temperatures to snow flurries and below zero wind chills, with a warming trend and rain in the weekend forecast. But what exactly does Chicago's ...

CHICAGO (CBS) --The city's looming budget deadline might have been on the back of their minds, but Chicago families were the focus of city leaders on Saturday at Christmas in the Wards. Mayor Brandon ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- It's a bad day to be a Christmas tree in Chicago. Many are making their way through the wood chipper as the city officially kicked off its annual Holiday Tree Recycling program on ...

CHICAGO — One of the country’s oldest holiday traditions happened Friday evening in Chicago. The 111th City of Chicago Christmas Tree was officially lit up Friday night, Nov. 22, during the annual ...

CHICAGO (CBS) — Millennium Park kicked off the holiday season, lighting up the city's official Christmas tree on Friday, bathing Michigan Avenue in the glow of 50,000 lights, and CBS News Chicago ...