Y's annual Reindeer Run scheduled for Saturday, Dec. 6, at the Brookfield Zoo

Come join us for the 5th Annual Greater LaGrange Reindeer Run Saturday, Dec. 6, at the Brookfield Zoo, 31st Street and First Avenue, and turn it in to a holiday tradition for the whole family. The race starts near the North Gate at 8:30 a.m. and the Kids Dash will follow around 9:30.

The $35 entrance fee includes registration to the 5K, a long-sleeved T-shirt and admission in to the world-renown zoo. Admission for the Kids Dash is $15. Registration the day of the race will be $45 for the 5K.

Registration is available on the YMCA website at https://donate.ymcachicago.org/lagrange

Proceeds from the race will support the Greater LaGrange YMCA, an active and important not-for-profit organization in the La Grange community that supports two Special Olympics teams as well as provides summer camp scholarships to area youth.

Sponsors for the race include BNSF Railway as the Rudolph sponsor; Vulcan Materials Company, AT&T and Homestead Apartments as Prancer sponsors; and Illinois State Rep. Mike Zalewski, First National Bank of La Grange and Freeborn attorneys at law as Vixen sponsors. Congressman Dan Lipinski, the La Grange Business Association and Lillig &Thorsness Ltd. attorneys at law are Comet sponsors. Blitzen level sponsors include Victory Consulting; Hawthorne Race Course; Miss Mickey’s Dancers; Celtics Soccer; Prasino; Tony and Joan Carey; Wild Monk; the Reed and Elinoff families; Nicksons Eatery; Securus Investment Management LLC; Horizon Wealth Management LLC with Ryan Williamson; the Wellness Path; Krave Restaurant; Margatie Transportation Inc.; Dr. Ralph Esposito, a La Grange podiatrist; . LTHS Hockey Club; Kara O’Connell from Smothers Realty; and Lively Bottle.

In-Kind donors include Community Nurse Health Center; Costco Wholesale of North Riverside; Whole Foods in Hinsdale; Palmer Place; RoadID; the Runner’s Soul; Mariano’s in Westchester; and Oberweis Dairy.