Photos, Video: Chicago’s 100th Annual Tree Lighting Ceremony

For the 100th time, Chicagoans shrugged off the cold to attend the Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony in Daley Plaza. This year’s 57-foot Colorado blue spruce was donated by the Moore family of South Holland. The ceremony also featured Darlene Love performing her Christmas classic, “(Christmas) Baby Please Come Home.”

Now that the tree is lit, that means no one can yell at you for listening to Christmas music, right?

Photos via Melissa Klauda/Sun-Times Media

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