Garfield Farm Museum will present its annual Candlelight Reception from 3 to 7 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, Dec. 6 and 7.

Interpreters wearing period clothing will share what life was like in the 1840s. Scantlin’ Reunion will play dulcimers in the second-floor ballroom, while spiced tea and tea breads are served in the dining room. The Homespun Holiday Market will be set in the adjacent Atwell Burr House.

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For the 12th consecutive year, the employees of Auto and Home Insurance Agency, Inc., in Downers Grove will open their wallets to benefit children of domestic violence at the South Suburban Family Shelter in Homewood.

The Northern Illinois LEGO Train Club will bring its huge LEGO train display to Cantigny Park from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, Dec. 6 and 7, for its seventh annual Christmas Train Show.

New is an expanded display taking up two rooms. Trains will zoom past a 9.5-foot LEGO Sears Tower, through cities and villages made out of LEGO, and past creations from the Indiana Jones movies and “Jurassic Park.”

The Morton Arboretum, I-88 and Route 53, Lisle, will open its exclusive Supper With Santa to the general public, from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Thursdays, Dec. 4 to 18.

Coinciding with the town’s Christmas Walk festivities, the Unitarian Universalist Society of Geneva will present its 26th annual Cookie Walk from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. Friday, Dec. 5. Cookie sales raise money to support the work of the church and the social justice programs it sponsors, including a youth trip to a Habitat for Humanity home-building site and donations to local nonprofit organizations such as Lazarus House homeless shelter and the Northern Illinois Food Bank.

Auditions for The Community House Players' spring production of "The Producers" will take place by appointment only from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 10, at The Community House in Hinsdale, 415
W. Eighth Ave.

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