Best Christmas Yard Displays Sought For 2022 Tour O' Holiday Lights

ILLINOIS — Just when you put the Halloween decorations away, it’s time to put together the 2022 Patch Tour O’ Holiday Lights. If you've spent days or weeks painstakingly hanging strands of lights on your house, trees and shrubs, or hauling multiple figurines out to your lawn, Patch wants to hear from you.

We'll be compiling our annual holiday tour o' lights, where readers can tour the best holiday light displays in the Chicago area. We’re giving away a $100 Amazon gift card to the best twinkling light display chosen by your Patch editors. To be considered, send us pictures and a description of your holiday winter wonderland by Dec. 12.

We’ll keep updating the list every Friday through Dec. 24. Due to the popularity of our Halloween and Christmas light tours, we’re going to separate submissions by COUNTY, so we don’t break the internet, as we have done in the past.

Send your photos and/or links to videos of your Christmas light display to lorraine.swanson@patch.com. We prefer that the homeowner submit his or her own yard, or an immediate neighbor or close relative. A good time to photograph your display is at dusk. Please include the following information:

• The exact address of the lawn display, including your COUNTY.
• The dates and hours when your display will be available for viewing, so people aren't ringing your doorbell or bothering your neighbors in the middle of the night.
• Your display's name, if it has one. (Or we can help you make one up.)
• Tell us about any special effects, such as singing trees, stuffed reindeer, live actors, etc.
• A link to your Facebook page or website, if you have one.
• A phone number (not for publication) in case Patch needs to contact you.
• A photo of the display.

IMPORTANT STUFF: Only submit photos you have taken yourself or are authorized to post on Patch. By submitting a photo, you're giving Patch permission to publish it for this feature and future stories.