Share your pictures in this category of our Patch Holiday Photos contest.
Have you and your kids seen Santa Claus in old St. Charles, or watched ice carving? Is there another great memory of Christmas on Main Street that you've captured? Share your photos on that theme with us by clicking the "Upload Photos and Videos" button on this page and following the instructions. For more info about the contest and the official rules, return to the main page for the Patch Holiday Photo Contest with the St. Charles Convention and Visitors Bureau.
Share your pictures in this category of our Patch Holiday Photos contest.
What makes the holidays uniquely "St. Charles" for you? Share your photos on that theme with us by clicking the "Upload Photos and Videos" button on this page and following the instructions. For more info about the contest and the official rules, return to the main page for the Patch Holiday Photo Contest with the St. Charles Convention and Visitors Bureau.
The Thanksgiving holiday falls as early as possible because November begins with a Thursday. You'll have more time to Christmas shop if "Black Friday" is the official start.
Some residents and businesses will start stringing up the Christmas lights as soon as the Halloween decorations come down, but hardcore shoppers know when their dream season begins. Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, has become the accepted if unofficial start time of the Christmas rush. It's a huge day for retailers but only the first of a roughly month-long extravaganza. And thanks to Abe Lincoln, who decreed Thanksgiving a national holiday, Franklin D. Roosevelt, who signed into law that it should fall on the fourth Thursday in November, and Pope Gregory XIII, who blessed the calendar we use by papal bull, 2012 has the longest possible shopping season. To explain: With Nov. 1 falling on Thursday, the fourth Thursday and …
