The Magnificent Mile Lights Festival is an annual event celebrated in Chicago on the Saturday before Thanksgiving. An estimated one million lights on 200 trees[1] brighten the city's Michigan Avenue, also known as the Magnificent Mile. The festival is hosted by The Magnificent Mile Association, formerly the Greater North Michigan Avenue Association, [2] and is the third largest parade in the country, according to the chair of the festival.[3]
- ^ “Magnificent Mile Lights Festival.” Archived 2014-11-13 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 8 August 2013
- ^ Greater North Michigan Avenue Association Archived 2014-02-08 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 14 June 2013
- ^ Horng, Eric; Kirsch, Jesse (November 22, 2019). "Chicago lights Christmas tree in Millennium Park". WLS-TV. Archived from the original on November 23, 2019. Retrieved November 25, 2019.