{"id":15657,"date":"2019-11-20T14:38:47","date_gmt":"2019-11-20T20:38:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rnrachicago.org\/?p=15657"},"modified":"2019-11-20T14:38:47","modified_gmt":"2019-11-20T20:38:47","slug":"the-2019-magnificent-mile-lights-festival-tree-lighting-parade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsite.rnrachicago.org\/?p=15657","title":{"rendered":"The 2019 Magnificent Mile Lights Festival &#038; Tree-Lighting Parade \u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-15658 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/rnrachicago.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/1423a5a8-615e-4993-b3e2-40fc9982b96a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.themagnificentmile.com\/lights-festival\/?utm_source=2nd+Ward+Alerts&amp;utm_campaign=69662b716b-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_11_18_04_42&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_3a38d3733c-69662b716b-182603189\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>The\u00a0Magnificent Mile Lights Festival &amp; Tree-Lighting Parade<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0will be taking place on Friday, November 22nd and Saturday,\u00a0November 23rd. Fun for the whole family culminates in Saturday&#8217;s grand Tree-Lighting Parade down Michigan Avenue with\u00a0grand marshals Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse from Walt Disney World Resorts in Florida. <a href=\"https:\/\/gallery.mailchimp.com\/936879b99e79c41d6215b423f\/images\/faaaae61-abf3-4945-bc70-40023f48c4f5.jpg?utm_source=2nd+Ward+Alerts&amp;utm_campaign=69662b716b-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_11_18_04_42&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_3a38d3733c-69662b716b-182603189\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>For the full parade route,\u00a0please click here.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The full schedule of events starts on Friday, November 22nd between 4:00 pm and 8:00 pm, and Saturday&#8217;s events will take\u00a0place between 11:00 am and 7:30 pm. Please be mindful of intermittent street closures taking place on Michigan Avenue\u00a0and several connecting streets beginning at 5:00 am on Friday, November 22nd, and lasting until 5:00 am on Sunday,\u00a0November 24th.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday, November 23rd, starting at 5:30 pm:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.themagnificentmile.com\/lights-festival\/?utm_source=2nd+Ward+Alerts&amp;utm_campaign=69662b716b-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_11_18_04_42&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_3a38d3733c-69662b716b-182603189\"><strong>Magnificent Mile Lights Festival &amp; Tree-Lighting Parade<\/strong><\/a>: The parade steps onto Michigan Avenue at Oak Street. Grand\u00a0Marshals Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse and their friends from the Walt Disney World Resort in Florida travel down North\u00a0Michigan Avenue to Wacker Drive, lighting one million lights along the way! The procession features spectacular floats,\u00a0helium-filled balloons, marching bands and top musical performers. Look out for lively appearances made by Hubert the\u00a0Lion, Benny the Bull and other well-known Chicago mascots.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday, November 23rd, starting at 6:55 pm:<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0fireworks spectacular\u00a0begins over the Chicago River at North Michigan Avenue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0Magnificent Mile Lights Festival &amp; Tree-Lighting Parade\u00a0will be taking place on Friday, November 22nd and Saturday,\u00a0November 23rd. Fun for the whole family culminates in Saturday&#8217;s grand Tree-Lighting Parade down Michigan Avenue with\u00a0grand marshals Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse from Walt Disney World Resorts in Florida. For the full parade route,\u00a0please click here. The full schedule [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15658,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.rnrachicago.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.rnrachicago.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.rnrachicago.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.rnrachicago.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.rnrachicago.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.rnrachicago.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15657\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.rnrachicago.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.rnrachicago.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.rnrachicago.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.rnrachicago.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}