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The Twelve Pubs of Christmas, popularly known as TBOX, which stands for Twelve Bars Of Xmas, is an annual pub crawl held in Chicago, Illinois, United States, since 1996. [1] The event now [ when? ] draws tens of thousands of participants annually.
Christkindlmarket, Chicago 2014. The market is situated by a large Christmas tree at Daley Plaza and also houses a small nativity scene. [6] The site features entertainment from Christmas choirs, dance groups, and brass bands. [2] It also houses a Santa house. [2]
Chicago [a] is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Illinois and in the Midwestern United States.With a population of 2,746,388, as of the 2020 census, [9] it is the third-most populous city in the United States after New York City and Los Angeles.
The song "CTA X-mas Train", [4] describing the Holiday Train, by the Snow Angels was the winner of the Chicago Tribune's New Holiday Classics Christmas song contest in 2009. [5] It narrowly avoided being shut down by CTA president Frank Kruesi after the budget cuts of 2004. A spokesman said, "It didn't seem appropriate to devote resources to ...
In 1934, the United States had been in the Great Depression for six years. Many leaders in Chicago searched for ways to boost the economy as well as public spirit. Walter Gregory, President of Chicago's State Street Council, proposed a Christmas parade to Chicago Mayor Edward Kelly in the hopes that it would improve the moods of Chicago residents.
By the time it stopped on December 26, accumulation had reached 26.4 inches (67.1 cm) in Central Park in Manhattan. [2] Similar or greater accumulations were noted in all of metropolitan New York and New Jersey , as well as in upstate New York , Connecticut , and most of the mid-Atlantic region .
Manhattan has a station on Metra's SouthWest Service, which provides weekday rail service [10] [11] to Chicago, Illinois (at Union Station). Manhattan is the southern terminus of the line. [12] U.S. Route 52 is the only numbered highway serving Manhattan; US 52 runs in the northwest–southeast direction through Manhattan. [13]
At its first appearance in records by explorers, the Chicago area was inhabited by a number of Algonquian peoples, including the Mascouten and Miami.The name "Chicago" is generally believed to derive from a French rendering of the Miami–Illinois language word šikaakwa, referring to the plant Allium tricoccum, as well as the animal skunk. [3]