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READ ON!Spend your weekend at The Promenade Bolingbrook for their 3rd Annual Holiday Market and get an early jump on holiday shopping this year!
From Friday, November 6 through Sunday, November 8, there will be both inside and outside vendors set up on Row Street, and will be using the Corner Store for the inside vendors.
There will be FREE reusable shopping bags Saturday for the first 50 people at each space and a free Plush Sunday.
While you shop you can also enjoy music and The Nutcracker on stilts. Then, stick around for the tree lightening, a giveaway and even a visit from Krampus, so make sure you’re on your best behavior. And don’t forget to come dressed in your ugliest sweater for the ugly sweater contest.
Masks are required to enter and there will be a table with hand sanitizer to use before you enter the space. To ensure proper safety is being taken the day of, they will count attendees in multiple spaces to make sure social distancing and room capacity levels are within the guidelines at the time of the show.
For more information, visit www.hcdestinations.com/Event-Details?eventer=13039