Back then, smart apps didn’t exist to control the diodes, and set-up was too expensive for the average homeowner. Luckily, ...

The best Christmas tree lights make a freshly picked pine or an artificial spruce equally mesmerizing. They can turn a tree into the center of an entire room — rather, a whole home. Yet whether ...

On Monday, first lady Jill Biden revealed this year’s White House holiday decorations. Among them is the focal point of the Blue Room: the floor-to-ceiling Fraser fir Christmas tree. The ...

Drop by on Monday, Nov. 25 between 5 p.m. and 6 p.m. for cookies, hot chocolate and clam chowder when the park's 260 feet of trellis will be illuminated with 50,000 blue lights. Quincy Market tree ...

But in 1894 President Cleveland put electric lights on the White House tree, and by 1914, a 16-foot string cost just $1.75. By the 1930s, colored bulbs and cones were everywhere.

City’s official Christmas tree lights up Millennium Park A 45-foot Colorado blue spruce was lit Friday night, signaling the official start to Chicago’s holiday season.

Santa Claus and Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer join Mayor Wu on stage shortly before 8 p.m. to light the tree, after which all the lights throughout the Common and Public Garden will illuminate ...

Chicago’s official 2024 Christmas tree is lit in a ceremony in Millennium Park. The 53-foot Colorado blue spruce was planted 50 years ago by former Logan Square homeowner Jim Mulligan.