Area Holiday Light Shows You Might Not Know About

Looking for light shows that knock your socks off? Here are five suggestions, courtesy of the Illinois Tollway:

• Aurora Festival of Lights, one of the largest free outdoor light displays in Northern Illinois; from the Reagan Memorial Tollway (I-88), exit at Farnsworth Avenue. Presented by the Rotary Club of Aurora.

• Illumination at The Morton Arboretum, an interactive light experience that lets you “see trees in a different light”; from westbound I-88 exit at Illinois Route 53 and from eastbound I-88 exit at Naperville Road. 

• Clearbrook Wonderland of Lights, where motorists can cruise through what’s dubbed the “World’s Largest Light Tunnel” at the Arlington International Racecourse; the Jane Addams Memorial Tollway (I-90) offers access via north Illinois Route 53.

• Winter Wonderland Holiday Light Show held on the grounds of Loyola University Chicago’s Cuneo Mansion and Gardens in Vernon Hills; from the Tri-State Tollway (I-94/I-294), exit at Townline Road (Illinois Route 60).

• Holiday Magical Light Show at Randhurst Village in Mount Prospect; from northbound I-294 exit at Dempster Street and from southbound I-294 exit at Willow Road.

• Symphony in Lights presented by The Promenade Bolingbrook features 250,000 lights illuminated to the music of Trans-Siberian Orchestra; off the Veterans Memorial Tollway (I-355), take the Boughton Road exit.