Events

Life is always busy, but there's something about the holiday season that makes days of the week just fly by when you're trying to get all your holiday stuff done. Here are the shipping deadlines for mailing packages from Illinois, with some coming up this week.

Maybe you're one of those people who always knows what the hottest items for Christmas are, or you're perhaps someone who couldn't care less because you're giving everyone socks and underwear. If you don't fit either of those descriptions, read on to see what Illinoisans really want to unwrap this holiday season.

If you've got friends and family scattered all over the place, you're probably going to spend some time packing up holiday gifts to send them. One of the most important parts of that process is making sure you send those items on time to get there for Christmas. Here are the dates and times you'll need.

Sometimes weather just doesn't cooperate when you want to stand outside at night at catch a really cool meteor shower taking place overhead, and you miss it. Well, in December you'll have not one, but two different opportunities to see the last meteor showers of 2023, so the weather odds are good you'll get a peek yourself.

There's no shortage of cool, fun, and interesting holiday things to do in and around the Rockford area, and the rest of Illinois offers up some great things, too. However, no one will think you and your family are being disloyal to the Land of Lincoln if you hop the border to check out what's going on in Franklin, Wisconsin.

Just in time for the holidays, the Nick Nackery in Evansville will be hosting photo ops with Krampus. Kids and leashed pets are welcome too.

For years, it seemed as though there was some sort of competition between major retailers for keeping a store open for shopping on Thanksgiving Day. When the backlash started to get loud, many of those same retailers quickly decided that, in the interests of public relations, they would close on Thanksgiving to let their employees celebrate with family.

Not that there's anything wrong in particular with Thursdays, but why exactly was a Thursday chosen as the day we give thanks instead of a Friday, Saturday, Sunday, or really any week day?

Even people who really don't like snow would be forced to admit that having some snow on the ground, trees, and rooftops at Christmas really does add something to the holiday. So, what do you think the chance are that those of us who live in Northern Illinois will be getting treated to a White Christmas?

One Wisconsin town wants to make it very clear that they are the winter capital of Wisconsin by trademarking the slogan.