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Halloween may be a mere three days in the past, but it's already time to swap pumpkin spice for peppermint with the winter holidays coming sooner than we may think. In one sure sign of that being the ...

Right now the tree that will soon rise from Millennium Park smothered in thousands of lights looks like a giant version of something you might use to scrub the gunk from a shower drain. But behold ...