by Lindsay Banks
11/30/09

For those of you riding the 'L' around town, keep an eye out for CTA's Holiday Train.  The cars are decorated with thousands of multi-colored lights, bows, garlands, and red and green overhead lighting. The hand poles are wrapped to look like candy canes.  Santa waves to boarding passengers from his open-air flat car. 

Sparkyluck captured the Holiday Train last year in this cool image and uploaded it to our Explore Northeastern Illinois Flickr Pool.  

And this is your final reminder to submit photos to the 2009 Images of Northeastern Illinois photo contest! The deadline is 5:00 pm tomorrow, December 1st.