Let’s face it: The holidays are a time for showing off.
Whether it’s the turducken you slaved over in hopes of impressing your mother-in-law or the elaborate light design strung in the front yard to elicit the neighbors’ envy, expectations for holiday entertaining are high. A surefire way to wow your guests is to create a beautiful tabletop arrangement to set the tone for your dining experience. Here are some tips...
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.
If you have questions about how to select, prepare, serve or store the popular holiday main course, there’s a new resource at your fingertips. Experts at University of Illinois Extension is ready to help via the office’s “Turkey for the Holidays” Web site.
Thanksgiving may be the one holiday when we get to indulge ourselves in what seems like never-ending meals of traditional, homemade comfort food. However, upon arriving to that anticipated Thursday every year, most families have come to expect the same tasting turkey as the previous year, or duplicates of boring casseroles or side dishes that are usually eaten for days after.
Snapshots offers high-quality color pictures taken throughout the year by our award-winning photographers. You’ll also find newspaper page reprints and gift items.