light show

It's December, baby! That means Christmas is right around the corner and Brookfield Zoo's Holiday Magic is back, the longest running lights festival in the Chicago area!

The Geminids are usually one of the best meteor showers of the year, capable of producing 150 or more meteors per hour at a dark site. Another really cool aspect is that the meteors are often bright and colorful.

Your best bet to see the sometimes colorful fireballs of the Geminid Meteor Shower will be somewhere away from the Rockford area's lights.

As someone who can't whistle at all, it doesn't take much to impress me in that department. At a concert, I've been known to ask the person next to me if they know how to whistle. If so, I then ask them if they'll let a loud one out for me. They usually switch seats...