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Holiday light displays are opening around the Chicago area, including impressive glow-ups at the Chicago Botanic Garden and Morton Arboretum. Others, some off the beaten path, imbue holiday cheer on foot, in the car and even on horseback.

Lightscape at Chicago Botanic Garden

Twenty-five miles north of Chicago, the Chicago Botanic Gardens’ Lightscape was among the region’s first light shows to open this year. Some dates are already sold out — and for good reason. Even if you know the gardens well, this 1.3-mile loop ventures through the Japanese, heritage, English walled and sensory gardens, which are barely recognizable when awash in color — produced by the U.K. firm Culture Creative with trail design by Chicagoans Lee Fiskness, Travis Shupe

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