No doubt you, too, have noticed the rush to Christmas. With Thanksgiving as late in November as possible, people are pushing into the yuletide holiday with a fervor like never before. Take, for example, the plethora of Christmas lights illuminating neighborhoods, even as autumn leaves continue to fall. Or, all the Santas and sleighs and snowmen sharing outdoor space with scarecrows and skeletons and sadly collapsing jack-o-lanterns. “Oh, I’m used to it,” a teen told me a couple weeks ago when I walked into a Yorkville school and saw a decorated tree in the foyer. “In my family we start […]
Column: Now in its third year, Christkindlmarket has found its Aurora home
