Celebrate Highwood and Family Service of Lake County Food Distribution

Our festivals may be on hold this year, but we are working hard to help our neighbors. Thanks to YOU and all of your incredible donations to Family Service of Lake County – Nuestro Center, we were able to feed 200 families grocery bags filled with pork, rice, beans, masa, tortillas, potatoes, fruits, veggies and eggs. It was impactful and achieved with YOUR generosity.

Let’s keep it going! Please continue to donate so we can continue to help our community and our friends.
Special thanks to BellaRu Catering and Mis Dos Magos for the food.
Families Helping Families Chicagoland provided the Summer Fun Bags, Fill a Heart 4 Kids provided toiletries & diapers. Windy City Linen and Greco and Sons Inc, Bartlett Illinois for the trucks. Without you we wouldn’t have gotten there! Thank you Rick Roshto for the photos and Coffee Cup Productions for the video.

Celebrate Highwood

Celebrate Highwood’s mission is to better the community through events and festivals. These activities help create a cohesive community by allowing neighbors to come together to work toward specific goals with and for our national and local charity partnerships. The events and festivals also help promote the area as a wonderful place to live, eat, work and play. All monies raised through our activities are donated to local and national charitable organizations. Join us in our mission! Community, Charity, Celebrate Highwood!

Highwood Virtual Trivia Tour Game

Hope For Highwood
"HOW TO DOWNLOAD THE HIGHWOOD VIRTUAL TRIVIA TOUR GAME"

To Play the Highwood Virtual Trivia Tour Game Download Atlas Treasure Hunt from:

Google Play Store HERE: or Apple App Store HERE:

Once players download the app, and sign in, they should click the Explore tab, and they will see the Highwood Trivia Tour in the list of available hunts. Then, they can select the hunt and play.

Highwood Virtual Trivia Tour - To Read More information and The Rules Click Here

CITY OF HIGHWOOD, HIGHWOOD CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND CELEBRATE HIGHWOOD COLLABORATE TO INTRODUCE “HIGHWOOD VIRTUAL TRIVIA TOUR”

Entire community comes together to support network of businesses and each other

HIGHWOOD, IL (APRIL 20, 2020) – In collaboration between the City of Highwood, Celebrate Highwood and the Highwood Chamber of Commerce, the organizations are happy to be launching the Highwood Virtual Trivia Tour to provide ‘Hope for Highwood’ businesses. With a goal of building public awareness for all the beloved local establishments, this virtual game will keep people enthusiastically engaged from the comfort of their home, in supporting Highwood businesses through the end of the current Stay in Place (SIP) order and any extensions.

Developed by Atlas Treasure Hunt, players can download the FREE App NOW (*see directions and links below) and begin playing the first Highwood Virtual Trivia Tour game scheduled to go live April 20^th at 9 am through May 1^st at 5 pm. Game Two (with a new slate of businesses) will begin on May 4^th at 9 am through May 15^th at 5 pm. Each game will include over a dozen customized trivia questions from Highwood businesses using content of interest to each specific business. These pieces of trivia will be in the form of a simple question, a photograph, or a video and users will respond accordingly.

“This is a great way to get to know our local business owners during the shelter in place while offering incentives to support our local businesses,” says Scott Coren, Highwood City Manager.

Each user to complete the Highwood Virtual Trivia Tour game will receive a virtual goodie bag that will be in the form of downloadable coupons with fabulous offers to support local Highwood businesses during the duration of the games and beyond.

Game One (April 20-May 1, 2020) participating businesses include:

Alex's Washington Gardens, Buffo's, Chicago Mike's Ice Cream, Club210, Froggy's French Restaurant, Highwood Bocce Club, Maria's Italian Bakery & Caffe, Nite N' Gale, Pastificio, Poeta's Italian Food Mart, Sandy's Restaurant, Skokie Valley Laundry, Street Level Studio and VITI Financial. Additional businesses will be announced for game two of the Highwood Virtual Trivia Tour.

Once the Governor lifts the SIP order, the City, Chamber and Celebrate Highwood look forward to offering the Highwood Trivia Tour game to visitors to Highwood and at its great Chamber and Celebrate Highwood events, in the form of walking tours of town, with themed focuses such as culinary, history, architecture, and beyond.

“Highwood prides itself on bringing communities together to CELEBRATE with our events and unique businesses that make Highwood such a destination,” says Charlie Pecaro, Highwood Mayor. “While we’re all working to adapt to current times, we must support our small businesses that are the heart of our community, while we strive to continue to deliver the fun in 2020. We are in this together.”

For more information on ALL THINGS HIGHWOOD please visit http://www.cityofhighwood.com, https://www.highwoodchamber.com/ and www.CelebrateHighwood.org or call 847-432-6000.

Our Events

Roaring 2020’s
Speakeasy & Casino Nite

North Shore Pride Fest

Market Music Social

Inferno Fest

North Shore Taco Fest/Highwood Days

Family Fun Run

Garlic Fest

Nashwood

Pumpkin Fest

Superhero 5K Run/Walk

Elf Invasion Pub Crawl