While some holiday events have already gotten underway, Chicago’s official kickoff to the season hasn’t rolled around yet.

Chicago’s 2025 Christmas tree, a 68-foot spruce, was cut down from the Glenview front yard of the Mason family on Nov. 3.

A 68-foot Norway spruce from Glenview has been chosen as Chicago’s official 2025 Christmas tree. The Mason family donated the ...

About 10 years later, the homeowner planted another tree beside the Norway spruce — a pine tree that came with a McDonald’s Happy Meal. It was McDonald’s response to then-President H. W. Bush’s 1990 ...