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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Miriam Di Nunzio

Morton Grove family donates Chicago’s 2022 Christmas tree for Millennium Park site

The city’s official Christmas tree is lit up during the annual tree lighting ceremony at Millennium Park in 2021. (Pat Nabong/Sun-Times)

Vesna Glisovic of Morton Grove is sending the City of Chicago a very special holiday greeting this year.

A 55-foot-tall Colorado blue spruce that stood on the front lawn of her family’s home for many decades has been selected to be this year’s official city Christmas tree, it was announced Friday morning. The tree, selected from nearly 80 entries in the city’s annual Christmas tree hunt, will be making its new home in Millennium Park for the holiday season.

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