The holidays begin with Chicago’s Magnificent Mile Lights Festival
Dora Whitaker
Lonely Planet Writer

Billed as the festival ‘where your holidays begin’, Chicago’s Magnificent Mile Lights Festival takes place on Saturday bringing fireworks, Disney characters, and Dee Snider (you know: of metal band Twisted Sister), to Michigan Avenue. The evening culminates in the annual switching on of the Christmas tree lights. Altogether now: ahhhh. Read more: themagnificentmile.com