The holidays are here and what better place to celebrate than the North Shore area! Below are some fun events that are happening this holiday season you won't to miss. Happy Holidays!

Highwood for the Holidays
Saturday December 04, 2010  12pm-7pm

This annual event brings local businesses, restaurants and residents together to provide a special day for the local servicemen and women stationed at Great Lakes Naval Base and Fort Sheridan Army Reserve. This year's event will embrace some 500 military men and women providing them with a full day of activities. Highwood will magically transform into a winter wonderland complete with an ice rink, Christmas trees for sale, sleigh rides, photos with Santa, Kris Kringle Market, holiday music, movies, food and fun. The Alley, 210 Green Bay Road, Highwood, IL 60040
For more information, visit: http://www.bowlhighwood.com/

Dickens of a Holiday
Saturday December 04, 2010  Saturday 11 am - 4 pm

Visit Santa and Mrs. Claus in picture perfect Cook Park. Take the children to do their shopping at the Children's Holiday Shoppe in the Civic Center where "elves" help them select and wrap their gifts. Cook Park and Civic Center, downtown Libertyville, Libertyville, IL 60048
For more information, visit: www.mainstreetlibertyville.org

 
A Civil War Christmas: An American Musical Celebration
November 11 - December 26
 
Set on a snowy Christmas Eve in Washington DC, 1864, this heartwarming new holiday offering from Pulitzer Prize-winner Paula Vogel weaves a glorious tapestry of fact and fiction, old-time carols and traditional tunes. As Mrs. Lincoln searches the city for the perfect Christmas tree for the White House, a desperate mother searches the snowy streets for her missing daughter. Familiar faces from our nation's past cross paths and storylines in this uplifting American epic.
 
"A Civil War Christmas" at Northlight Theatre
Now - December 19, 2010

Meet the women of Gee's Bend, who sing hauntingly beautiful gospel melodies as they create magnificent (and now, world-famous) hand-made quilts. This epic yet intimate play spans fifty years, following Sadie Pettway through the trials of an abusive marriage, racial indignities and the hardships of the working poor. Inspired by a true story, Gee's Bend has already touched millions who witnessed the stunning quilt work through a national exhibition tour, on PBS's NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, and in Newsweek, House and Garden, and Oprah Winfrey's O Magazine. $40-45.  Northlight Theatre, 9501 Skokie Blvd, Skokie, IL  (847) 673-6300

 

 

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