This year’s Christkindlmarket in Aurora will open on Nov. 21 at RiverEdge Park, event organizers announced on Monday.
The popular Christmas-time German-American market has made RiverEdge Park in Aurora its suburban home since 2022.
Last year, a record-setting 275,000 people visited the Christkindlmarket in Aurora, officials said.
The holiday market in Aurora is organized by German American Events, a group which will also operate the Christkindlmarkets at Daley Plaza and Gallagher Way in Wrigleyville in Chicago during the holidays.
This year’s Christkindlmarket in Aurora will be open Thursdays to Sundays from Nov. 21 through Dec. 24. It will be open from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Thursdays, 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays and 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Sundays, according to a press release about the market.
There will be special hours of operation from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Thanksgiving (Nov. 27) and Christmas Eve (Dec. 24) and from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Monday, Dec. 22, and Tuesday, Dec. 23, the release said.
The Aurora market will be the largest ever organized by German American Events, organizers said in the release, with more than 60 vendors and new seasonal dishes offered like s’mores and sauteed mushrooms.
In addition to the Aurora location, the annual Christkindlmarket will return to Daley Plaza and Gallagher Way in Chicago.
The Christkindlmarket at Daley Plaza at 50 W. Washington St. in Chicago will be open daily from Nov. 21 through Dec. 24, according to the release. The market’s hours will be 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Sundays through Thursdays and 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, with special hours of 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Thanksgiving and Christmas Eve.
The Christkindlmarket Wrigleyville at Gallagher Way at 3635 N. Clark St. in Chicago will be open daily from Nov. 23 through Dec. 31, organizers said. It will be open from 3 to 9 p.m. Mondays through Thursdays, 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays and 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Sundays. There will be special hours of 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve, and 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. on Monday, Dec. 29, and Tuesday, Dec. 30, according to the release.
