While typically a time of year associated with relaxation and any number of festive activities, the holiday season in Chicago will look different this year due to COVID-19.
“One of the main things we are considering is really trying to keep that Christkindlmarket family together [and] keep the feel of the market going,” she says. “And not sort of exclude those vendors that wouldn’t be able to come over, because they’re really something that is the heart of the market.”
“We’re really going to make this safe, we’re going to mark off six-feet markers on the street and we’re going to have a bouncer out there to let people know they gotta go, you gotta go,” he says. “We want to make this sweet and nice and it’s gonna be hard this year. But if we can do it and do it safe, we want to do it.”
“Even if we can just kind of do this little charade that we like, went out and had a Christmas cocktail somewhere, even though we’re grabbing-and-going and going straight home and enjoying it, you know, at home,” she says, “it’s an important thing to do.”
