Ten-year-old Maddie Szkwarek strings lights in Uptown Park Ridge on Nov. 3. | Joel Lerner~Sun-Times Media
Matt Wagner hangs holiday lights in Uptown Park Ridge on Nov. 3 | Joel Lerner~Sun-Times Media
Eleven-year-old Violet Kamienski helps her dad, Al, tape together two strands of lights as volunteers decorate trees for the holidays in Uptown Park Ridge on Nov. 3. | Joel Lerner~Sun-Times Media
Elizabeth Schmitt, 13, hangs holiday lights in Uptown Park Ridge Nov. 3 | Joel Lerner~Sun-Times Media
Toni Tortorella and Elizabeth Schmitt of the Park Ridge Pistols softball team hang lights in Uptown Park Ridge on Nov. 3. | Joel Lerner~Sun-Times Media
Toni Tortorella and Elizabeth Schmitt of the Park Ridge Pistols softball team hang lights in Uptown Park Ridge on Nov. 3. | Joel Lerner~Sun-Times Media
Park Ridge Pistols softball player Claire Stehens, 14, gets a lift from Carina Bruno, 14, as Mary Yarck, left, lends a hand in hanging holiday lights in Uptown Park Ridge on Nov. 3. | Joel Lerner~Sun-Times Media
PARK RIDGE —With strands of white lights in hand, volunteers once again set out to illuminate Park Ridge’s commercial districts for the holidays. Lights were strung across trees in the city’s Uptown and South Park areas Nov. 3 as part of an initiative spearheaded by … Read More