Saturday: Promenade Bolingbrook's Symphony of Lights to Feature Santa, Carriage Rides and More

Enjoy an afternoon of holiday fun at the Promenade Bolingbrook, including ice sculptures, a live nativity, gingerbread contest and more.

Promenade Bolingbrook's Symphony of Lights to Feature Santa, Carriage Rides and More

Enjoy an afternoon of holiday fun at the Promenade Bolingbrook, including ice sculptures, a live nativity, gingerbread contest and more.

Editor's note: The following is a press release from the Promenade Bolingbrook.  The Promenade and the Village of Bolingbrook join together to provide the community at large a spectacular day of holiday family fun! Activities begin at 3 p.m. on Saturday, November 10, 2012 and continue throughout the afternoon, ending with the lighting of The Promenade Bolingbrook’s massive Christmas tree and the first Symphony in Lights show of the 2012 Holiday Season at dusk.  Adventist Bolingbrook Hospital is the Premiere Sponsor of The Promenade’s 2012 Symphony in Lights Show.  Since 2008, the show has been famed as The largest commercial holiday light show of its kind in Chicagoland.  “Symphony in Lights” features more than 250,000 highly efficient LED…

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Holiday Season Kicks Off With Promenade's Symphony in Lights Celebration

Village of Bolingbrook, Promenade present “Symphony in Lights.”

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas in Bolingbrook. The holiday season kicked off in grand style Saturday at the The Promenade's annual Symphony in Lights show. Enthusiastic crowds gathered to soak in the sights and sounds of the season, complete with holiday music, horse-drawn carriage rides, a gingerbread contest, ice sculpture demonstrations and a cast of characters from Frostie the Snowman and The Grinch to the jolly-old elf himself, Santa Claus. The day’s activities culminated after dark, when Bolingbrook Deputy Mayor LeRoy Brown led the crowd in a countdown to the annual tree lighting and Symphony in Lights show, featuring more than 250,000 computer-controlled lights choreographed to holiday music. The event was presented by …

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Promenade's Symphony in Lights Show Set to Open This Weekend

The Symphony in Lights begins at dusk each evening and plays every hour on the hour until 9 p.m. from Nov. 12 through Dec. 31.

The Promenade's popular holiday light show, Symphony in Lights, is slated to begin Nov. 12, Promenade officials announced Monday. The light show takes more than 250,000 computer-controlled lights and choreograph's them to holiday-themed music. The show, according to a Promenade release, involves more than 75 people in six states; 60 miles of electrical wire; half a mile of steel cable; 6,000 ornaments and more than 1,000 hours of computer programming. For more information on the event, CLICK HERE. The show was the brainchild of a group of artists and inspired by the holiday light and music show designed by artist Carson Williams for his home in Mason, Ohio, the release said. The Symphony in Lights begins at dusk each evening and plays …

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