Waukegan holds Christmas tree lighting despite heavy snow: ‘We wanted to give the community this experience’

Waukegan holds Christmas tree lighting despite heavy snow: ‘We wanted to give the community this experience’

Waukegan officials awoke Saturday to falling snow and a forecast of eight to 12 inches, according to the National Weather Service, forcing them to decide how to conduct the city’s annual Christmas tree lighting in the midst of snow forecast to fall at a rate of an inch per hour. Jingle on Genesee, as the city named this year’s celebration, was a combination of lighting the tree, the annual Kris Kringle Market at the Waukegan Public Library, a Ho…