Christmas Lights of Hope- Carmi, IL

Christmas Lights of Hope- Carmi, IL Christmas Lights of Hope is an event that is put on by the Carmi Christmas Elves. The Carmi Christma

11/22/2025

As many know, we will be taking 2025 off from our light display. We have so many lights that need to be worked on and fixed this year . This was a tough decision, but too many repairs are needed.

With that being said, we NEED help to come back in 2026. We are working with a very small group and we just cannot manage it all on our own anymore. This is a commitment, we work every single weekend from October until we open which is typically Thanksgiving weekend! We need more members from our community and other organizations to help us!

If you are interested in helping next year it is so appreciated . If you would like to donate money towards shoes for kids even with us being closed, please reach out. We will always accept help and extra donations!

We are sad that we have to take the year off but hopefully next year we have more help and come back stronger and better! Thank you everyone that has supported Christmas Lights of Hope!

-Carmi Christmas Elves 🌲 🎁

11/07/2025

Carmi Christmas Elves and volunteers are handing out around 400 pairs of shoes to Carmi-White County School District children today (Friday). Since the program’s inception, President Cynthia Attebury says they’ve given away more than 3,000 pairs through the organization’s Kicks for Kids Progra...

01/01/2025

Happy New Year!! The last few days of 2024 were rained out unfortunately. We will be poating the total number of shoes we gave away in 2024 as well as the donations raised for 2025. We would like to personally thank every one who helped, donated, worked the gate, fed the workers, and brought hot chocolate (and anything else I missed). I especially want to thank all of my Elves whether you are an official Elf or married to one😜. I know who I can always count on to get things done and have some fun along the way.

We will be scheduling a day to take down all the lights in the next few weeks.

Again, THANK YOU!

Papa and Mama Elf ❤️

12/31/2024

We wanted to open one last time tonight but our road ways are still under water and it is very muddy so we don’t want to risk anyone getting stuck! Thanks for a great 2024 season. We already have some new ideas and plans for 2025!

12/30/2024

After so much rain several of our lights and the path to drive on is submerged underwater. We will have to be closed tonight. We will try to open one more time tomorrow night, pending the water levels go down. ďżź please do not attempt to drive through because some of the spots are pretty deep.

12/29/2024

The lights will stay on until New Years Day. New Year’s Eve will be our last night open for the 2024 season. Our red donation box is at the end to drop a donation. We appreciate our community and we’re excited to start giving shoes to kids in 2025!!

12/27/2024

No gate volunteers tonight but we will turn the lights on!! We still have our red donation box at the end if you’d like to make a donation! It is on the left by the toy soldier! Thanks everyone for your continued support!

12/26/2024

Our community has really been showing up this week!! Last week we let everyone know we were far from our goal. This week we hit $17,000 in donations. Our goal is $25,000 and we are open every night for the rest of the week! This is the final push to help us get new shoes on over 400 kids next year!! Thank you to our community for always pulling through.

The Christmas lights will be on again tonight! The Mad Hatters 4H group will be volunteering at the gate from 6-8 pm ton...
12/26/2024

The Christmas lights will be on again tonight! The Mad Hatters 4H group will be volunteering at the gate from 6-8 pm tonight! We are entering the final days to drive through!

12/25/2024

The lights will be on all evening. No volunteers working at the gate , but feel free to drop a donation in the red donation box at the end on the left by the toy soldier! Thank you and have a very merry Christmas!!!

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White County Fairgrounds
Carmi, IL
62821

Opening Hours

Friday 6pm - 9pm
Saturday 6pm - 9pm
Sunday 5:30pm - 7:30pm

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