Whether your Thanksgiving is filled with food, family, friends, or football, you’ll find it all in Mt. Morris.
The fun begins with Police Chief Cicchetti reading a story at the Mt. Morris Public Library on November 21, 5:45-7 p.m. (with help from an ASL interpreter). The Illinois State Family Reading Night celebration is open to all ages and includes crafts and refreshments. This free event is sure to build an attitude of gratitude for our outstanding police and library.
Thanksgiving preparations continue with several options for getting your food coma on.
If you will be the master chef you can buy the bird (and everything else) at Sullivan’s Foods. Or, take a chance at winning a turkey at the Idle Hour taphouse and pub the day before Thanksgiving. Or, you could make turkey day quick and easy by ordering a special Thanksgiving meal from Sullivan’s that you simply reheat and serve.
Consider trading a trip over the river and through the woods to Grandma’s house for a big Thanksgiving buffet, and a walk along bubbling streams and through the woods at the White Pines Lodge & Restaurant, in White Pines State Park on Thanksgiving day. Call for reservations.
Although Cimino’s, the Pepper Mill, the Campus Café and NAVA Restaurant will be closed on Thanksgiving day, the Campus Café will highlight turkey during the week leading up to Thanksgiving. To take a break from the upcoming bird, make a reservation for The Center’s fall soup and chili dinner on November 26.
Begin a new Friends-giving tradition on Thanksgiving day – and Game Day – at Mullarkey’s Bar and Grill, where football will be on every big screen and they’ll start serving Tom & Jerry’s at 9 a.m. The kitchen will be closed, but the football will be hot and the drinks cold.
No matter how you spend Thanksgiving, be thankful that we live in Mt. Morris, where the quality of life is high, we have a strong sense of community, a low cost of living, easy access to schools, local businesses, and recreation, a low crime rate, and are surrounded by beautiful landscapes.
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