Thousands of lights at Chicago Botanic Garden illuminate tunnels, lilies and art
A commercial air plane streaks across the the post-sunset sky above the “Welcome Arch” at the beginning of a 1.3-mile path through the Chicago Botanic Garden’s fifth annual Lightscape holiday experience of light and music in Glencoe, Ill., on Thursday, Dec. 14, 2023. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
Visitors to the Chicago Botanic Garden’s Lightscape holiday experience of light and music pass through the “Electric Ribbon Tunnel,” created by Culture Creative, in Glencoe, Ill., on Thursday, Dec. 14, 2023. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
Visitors to the Chicago Botanic Garden’s Lightscape experience of light and music as they walk through “Ros’O,” created by French artist TILT, in Glencoe, Ill., on Thursday, Dec. 14, 2023. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
Visitors to the Chicago Botanic Garden’s Lightscape holiday experience of light and music, pass through the constantly changing light of “Love and Be Loved,” created by Chicago artists Lee Fiskness and Travis Shupe, in Glencoe, Ill., on Thursday, Dec. 14, 2023. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
Flowered lights make up “Ricochet,” created by Chicago artists Lee Fiskness and Travis Shupe, illuminating a section of the 1.3-mile path as part of the Chicago Botanic Garden’s Lightscape, a holiday experience of light and music in Glencoe, Ill., on Thursday, Dec. 14, 2023. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
“Bright Ideas,” created by Lee Fiskness and Travis Shupe, illuminates a section of the 1.3-mile path at the Chicago Botanic Garden’s fifth annual Lightscape experience of light and music in Glencoe, Ill., on Thursday, Dec. 14, 2023. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
An illuminated tree rises above “Lilies,” from UK artist Jigantics, as they float on the Chicago Botanic Garden’s Great Basin, part of the fifth annual 1.3-mile, Lightscape experience of light and music in Glencoe, Ill., on Thursday, Dec. 14, 2023. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
“Lilies,” created by UK artist Jigantics, pierce the darkness as they float near the Chicago Botanic Garden’s Great Basin, part of the fifth annual 1.3-mile, Lightscape experience of light and music in Glencoe, Ill., on Thursday, Dec. 14, 2023. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
Visitors walk through the lights of “Ros’O,” created by French artist TILT, center, and Wind Seeds, right, created by Norman Mooney, as part of the Chicago Botanic Garden’s fifth annual Lightscape, a 1.3-mile light and music experience in Glencoe, Ill., on Thursday, Dec. 14, 2023. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
Visitors navigate the Chicago Botanic Garden’s fifth annual 1.3-mile Lightscape experience in light and music, as they walk past “Sea of Light,” which uses thousands of individually controlled multicolored LEDs and spotlights scanning the sky, created by UK artist Ithaca, in Glencoe, Ill., on Thursday, Dec. 14, 2023. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
Visitors to the Chicago Botanic Garden’s fifth annual Lightscape experience in light and music walk past the 4,800 individually controlled LED light balls of “Sea of Light,” created by UK artist Ithaca, in Glencoe, Ill., on Thursday, Dec. 14, 2023. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
“Laser Lake,” a show of multicolored light and music, dances across the Great Basin Thursday, Dec. 14, 2023, as part of the Chicago Botanic Garden’s 1.3-mile, fifth annual Lightscape holiday experience of light and music in Glencoe, Ill. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
Visitors finish the 1.3-mile Lightscape experience of light and music as they enter the 110-foot, 100,000 lights of “Winter Cathedral,” created by Mandylights, at the Chicago Botanic Garden in Glencoe, Ill., on Thursday, Dec. 14, 2023. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
Visitors finish the 1.3-mile Lightscape experience of light and music as they have a family portrait taken inside the 110-foot, 100,000 lights of “Winter Cathedral,” created by Mandylights, at the Chicago Botanic Garden in Glencoe, Ill., on Thursday, Dec. 14, 2023. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
Roma Di, left, takes a picture of Irene Kin, both recently arriving from Ukraine, as they finish the 1.3-mile Lightscape experience of light and music inside the 110-foot, 100,000 lights of “Winter Cathedral,” created by Mandylights, at the Chicago Botanic Garden in Glencoe, Ill., on Thursday, Dec. 14, 2023. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
An elderly couple walks through the “Half Arches” light display created by Culture Creative, part of the Chicago Botanic Garden’s 1.3-mile Lightscapes holiday experience of light and music in Glencoe, Ill., on Thursday, Dec. 14, 2023. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
A commercial air plane streaks across the the post-sunset sky above the “Welcome Arch” at the beginning of a 1.3-mile path through the Chicago Botanic Garden’s fifth annual Lightscape holiday experience of light and music in Glencoe, Ill., on Thursday, Dec. 14, 2023. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
A commercial air plane streaks across the the post-sunset sky above the “Welcome Arch” at the beginning of a 1.3-mile path through the Chicago Botanic Garden’s fifth annual Lightscape holiday experience of light and music in Glencoe, Ill., on Thursday, Dec. 14, 2023. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
Visitors to the Chicago Botanic Garden’s Lightscape holiday experience of light and music pass through the “Electric Ribbon Tunnel,” created by Culture Creative, in Glencoe, Ill., on Thursday, Dec. 14, 2023. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
Visitors to the Chicago Botanic Garden’s Lightscape holiday experience of light and music pass through the “Electric Ribbon Tunnel,” created by Culture Creative, in Glencoe, Ill., on Thursday, Dec. 14, 2023. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
Visitors to the Chicago Botanic Garden’s Lightscape experience of light and music as they walk through “Ros’O,” created by French artist TILT, in Glencoe, Ill., on Thursday, Dec. 14, 2023. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
Visitors to the Chicago Botanic Garden’s Lightscape experience of light and music as they walk through “Ros’O,” created by French artist TILT, in Glencoe, Ill., on Thursday, Dec. 14, 2023. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
Visitors to the Chicago Botanic Garden’s Lightscape holiday experience of light and music, pass through the constantly changing light of “Love and Be Loved,” created by Chicago artists Lee Fiskness and Travis Shupe, in Glencoe, Ill., on Thursday, Dec. 14, 2023. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
Visitors to the Chicago Botanic Garden’s Lightscape holiday experience of light and music, pass through the constantly changing light of “Love and Be Loved,” created by Chicago artists Lee Fiskness and Travis Shupe, in Glencoe, Ill., on Thursday, Dec. 14, 2023. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
Flowered lights make up “Ricochet,” created by Chicago artists Lee Fiskness and Travis Shupe, illuminating a section of the 1.3-mile path as part of the Chicago Botanic Garden’s Lightscape, a holiday experience of light and music in Glencoe, Ill., on Thursday, Dec. 14, 2023. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
Flowered lights make up “Ricochet,” created by Chicago artists Lee Fiskness and Travis Shupe, illuminating a section of the 1.3-mile path as part of the Chicago Botanic Garden’s Lightscape, a holiday experience of light and music in Glencoe, Ill., on Thursday, Dec. 14, 2023. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
“Bright Ideas,” created by Lee Fiskness and Travis Shupe, illuminates a section of the 1.3-mile path at the Chicago Botanic Garden’s fifth annual Lightscape experience of light and music in Glencoe, Ill., on Thursday, Dec. 14, 2023. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
“Bright Ideas,” created by Lee Fiskness and Travis Shupe, illuminates a section of the 1.3-mile path at the Chicago Botanic Garden’s fifth annual Lightscape experience of light and music in Glencoe, Ill., on Thursday, Dec. 14, 2023. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
An illuminated tree rises above “Lilies,” from UK artist Jigantics, as they float on the Chicago Botanic Garden’s Great Basin, part of the fifth annual 1.3-mile, Lightscape experience of light and music in Glencoe, Ill., on Thursday, Dec. 14, 2023. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
An illuminated tree rises above “Lilies,” from UK artist Jigantics, as they float on the Chicago Botanic Garden’s Great Basin, part of the fifth annual 1.3-mile, Lightscape experience of light and music in Glencoe, Ill., on Thursday, Dec. 14, 2023. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
“Lilies,” created by UK artist Jigantics, pierce the darkness as they float near the Chicago Botanic Garden’s Great Basin, part of the fifth annual 1.3-mile, Lightscape experience of light and music in Glencoe, Ill., on Thursday, Dec. 14, 2023. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
“Lilies,” created by UK artist Jigantics, pierce the darkness as they float near the Chicago Botanic Garden’s Great Basin, part of the fifth annual 1.3-mile, Lightscape experience of light and music in Glencoe, Ill., on Thursday, Dec. 14, 2023. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
Visitors walk through the lights of “Ros’O,” created by French artist TILT, center, and Wind Seeds, right, created by Norman Mooney, as part of the Chicago Botanic Garden’s fifth annual Lightscape, a 1.3-mile light and music experience in Glencoe, Ill., on Thursday, Dec. 14, 2023. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
Visitors walk through the lights of “Ros’O,” created by French artist TILT, center, and Wind Seeds, right, created by Norman Mooney, as part of the Chicago Botanic Garden’s fifth annual Lightscape, a 1.3-mile light and music experience in Glencoe, Ill., on Thursday, Dec. 14, 2023. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
Visitors navigate the Chicago Botanic Garden’s fifth annual 1.3-mile Lightscape experience in light and music, as they walk past “Sea of Light,” which uses thousands of individually controlled multicolored LEDs and spotlights scanning the sky, created by UK artist Ithaca, in Glencoe, Ill., on Thursday, Dec. 14, 2023. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
Visitors navigate the Chicago Botanic Garden’s fifth annual 1.3-mile Lightscape experience in light and music, as they walk past “Sea of Light,” which uses thousands of individually controlled multicolored LEDs and spotlights scanning the sky, created by UK artist Ithaca, in Glencoe, Ill., on Thursday, Dec. 14, 2023. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
Visitors to the Chicago Botanic Garden’s fifth annual Lightscape experience in light and music walk past the 4,800 individually controlled LED light balls of “Sea of Light,” created by UK artist Ithaca, in Glencoe, Ill., on Thursday, Dec. 14, 2023. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
Visitors to the Chicago Botanic Garden’s fifth annual Lightscape experience in light and music walk past the 4,800 individually controlled LED light balls of “Sea of Light,” created by UK artist Ithaca, in Glencoe, Ill., on Thursday, Dec. 14, 2023. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
“Laser Lake,” a show of multicolored light and music, dances across the Great Basin Thursday, Dec. 14, 2023, as part of the Chicago Botanic Garden’s 1.3-mile, fifth annual Lightscape holiday experience of light and music in Glencoe, Ill. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
“Laser Lake,” a show of multicolored light and music, dances across the Great Basin Thursday, Dec. 14, 2023, as part of the Chicago Botanic Garden’s 1.3-mile, fifth annual Lightscape holiday experience of light and music in Glencoe, Ill. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
Visitors finish the 1.3-mile Lightscape experience of light and music as they enter the 110-foot, 100,000 lights of “Winter Cathedral,” created by Mandylights, at the Chicago Botanic Garden in Glencoe, Ill., on Thursday, Dec. 14, 2023. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
Visitors finish the 1.3-mile Lightscape experience of light and music as they enter the 110-foot, 100,000 lights of “Winter Cathedral,” created by Mandylights, at the Chicago Botanic Garden in Glencoe, Ill., on Thursday, Dec. 14, 2023. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
Visitors finish the 1.3-mile Lightscape experience of light and music as they have a family portrait taken inside the 110-foot, 100,000 lights of “Winter Cathedral,” created by Mandylights, at the Chicago Botanic Garden in Glencoe, Ill., on Thursday, Dec. 14, 2023. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
Visitors finish the 1.3-mile Lightscape experience of light and music as they have a family portrait taken inside the 110-foot, 100,000 lights of “Winter Cathedral,” created by Mandylights, at the Chicago Botanic Garden in Glencoe, Ill., on Thursday, Dec. 14, 2023. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
Roma Di, left, takes a picture of Irene Kin, both recently arriving from Ukraine, as they finish the 1.3-mile Lightscape experience of light and music inside the 110-foot, 100,000 lights of “Winter Cathedral,” created by Mandylights, at the Chicago Botanic Garden in Glencoe, Ill., on Thursday, Dec. 14, 2023. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
Roma Di, left, takes a picture of Irene Kin, both recently arriving from Ukraine, as they finish the 1.3-mile Lightscape experience of light and music inside the 110-foot, 100,000 lights of “Winter Cathedral,” created by Mandylights, at the Chicago Botanic Garden in Glencoe, Ill., on Thursday, Dec. 14, 2023. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
An elderly couple walks through the “Half Arches” light display created by Culture Creative, part of the Chicago Botanic Garden’s 1.3-mile Lightscapes holiday experience of light and music in Glencoe, Ill., on Thursday, Dec. 14, 2023. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
An elderly couple walks through the “Half Arches” light display created by Culture Creative, part of the Chicago Botanic Garden’s 1.3-mile Lightscapes holiday experience of light and music in Glencoe, Ill., on Thursday, Dec. 14, 2023. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
GLENCOE, Ill. (AP) — Chicago Botanic Garden is dazzling patrons and visitors from around the world with their fifth annual holiday display of light and music: Lightscape.
Clusters of multigenerational households push strollers, carry children and walk arm in arm with older relatives as they navigate the 1.3-mile (2.1-kilometer) experience in the village of Glencoe, near Chicago.
More than 22 light installations by various local and international artists light a path through established gardens that snake around the Great Basin in the core of the garden’s 385 acres.
Highlights of the experience include passing through the “Electric Ribbon Tunnel” created by Culture Creative; “Sea of Light,” created by UK artist Ithaca, which has 4,800 individually controlled balls of LED light; “Lilies,” by UK artist Jigantics, with 22 illuminated 5-foot (1.5-meter) lilies that float in and around the darkness of the Great Basin; and “Laser Lake,” projecting a rainbow of light dancing across the Great Basin.
A crowd favorite, “Winter Cathedral,” features a cathedral window arch of 100,000 lights that extends along a 110-foot (33.5-meter) tunnel at the end of your journey.
The event ends Jan. 7. To find out more visit: https://www.chicagobotanic.org/lightscape.
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