Beverly and Morgan Park don't hold one holiday weekend. They hold four Saturdays in a row, each in a different spot. It starts with a ballet on 111th Street. Then comes a shop-local Saturday across the whole area, a day-long trolley route on Western Avenue, and an afternoon on the 99th and 103rd Street shopping strips near the Metra stations.
Each Saturday has its own map. On the last one, the published schedule still lists three businesses that lost their storefronts on the 1800 block of West 103rd Street on New Year's Day. If you plan your December around the official pages alone, you'll walk up to at least one of those stops and find it isn't there.
Four Saturdays, in order
Here's the calendar as the organizers have posted it for 2026:
- Saturday, Nov. 21. Ruth Page's The Nutcracker Suite at the Beverly Arts Center, 2407 W. 111th St., with shows at 1 p.m. and 5 p.m. in Baffes Theatre.
- Saturday, Nov. 28. Small Business Saturday and Holiday Bingo across Beverly/Morgan Park, run by the Morgan Park Beverly Hills Business Association.
- Saturday, Dec. 5. Holiday Road, along South Western Avenue from 99th to 115th streets, plus Church 103.
- Saturday, Dec. 12. Holiday Hurrah, in the 99th and 103rd Street shopping district.
The order matters because each Saturday moves somewhere else. You start at a theater on 111th, spread out across the whole commercial area, follow Western for 16 blocks, and finish on two side-street strips by the train. A single December plan has to cover three different corridors.
Nov. 21 starts the season on 111th Street
The Beverly Arts Center's listing prices The Nutcracker Suite at $35 for adults and $25 for kids 17 and under. Ruth Page Center for the Arts presents the production. The two showtimes split the day neatly. The 1 p.m. show fits families who want the afternoon done before dinner. The 5 p.m. show lets you shop first and go to the theater after.
The Arts Center comes back two weeks later as a stop on Holiday Road, so the same building shows up twice in the season.
Nov. 28 is a bingo card
The business association bills Small Business Saturday as the start of holiday shopping. It pairs the day with Holiday Bingo: each purchase at a local business earns a sticker on that business's square, and a completed card gets you into gift card raffles. The association says the full details and a downloadable card will be posted in November.
The bingo card fits the way this area is laid out. The shops don't share one street, so the card gives you a reason to go from Western over to 99th and 103rd. That same spread is why the next two Saturdays are separate events.
Dec. 5 is Western Avenue's day
On the MPBHBA's Holiday Road page, the association invites shoppers to "stroll or hop on our holiday trolley" between one-of-a-kind local shops, with holiday music and "special sips and bites at participating businesses." The route runs on Western from 99th to 115th, and Church 103 is part of it too.
The page's roster of businesses covers the main names along the avenue:
- Restaurants and pubs: Americanos, Barney Callaghan's, Cork & Kerry, Franconello, Horse Thief Hollow, Janson's Drive In, Joey's Red Hots, Ken's on Western, McNally's, Nicky's of Beverly and O'Rourke's
- Shops and studios: Bookie's & BUBO, Beverly Bicycle Repair Shop, Emilia Gray, Haven 1890, Levraddigans and Lauren Alyssa Photography
- The Beverly Arts Center and AndySunflower Café
The date and route are set for 2026. Some of the detail further down the page, including the trolley map and scavenger hunt materials, still carries 2025 labels. Treat the business list as a solid starting point, and check the trolley stops and special offers closer to Dec. 5.
On Western, the published plan and the street mostly match. On 103rd Street, they don't.
Dec. 12 brings the season to 99th and 103rd
The association's Holiday Hurrah page promises "a festive day of shopping, family-friendly activities, live music, and sips at select shops" in the 99th and 103rd Street district. Its highlights section lists:
- A holiday photo booth at Two Mile from 10 a.m. to noon
- Face painting at 411 Immuni-Tea from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
- A Soul Session with Audrey V at Afro Joe's Coffee & Tea from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
- A caricature artist at Bricktop from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
- The Peanuts Band playing holiday jazz at Calabria Imports from 1 to 4 p.m.
- Santa at 1743 W. 99th St. from 3 to 4 p.m.
There's no event-wide start or end time posted yet. Last year's sources didn't agree on one anyway. The association listed the Dec. 13, 2025 Hurrah as 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., and the Beverly Review printed 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Plan around the timed activities, not a guessed closing time.
Further down, the 103rd Street section of the same page lists a Beverly Phono Mart sale with Christmas records playing all day. It also lists holiday gift wrapping and kids' ornament decorating at Ephemera Gallery, 1810 W. 103rd St., from noon to 4 p.m., and a holiday market at The FoundHERS Suite from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. All three of those businesses were in the building that was hit on Jan. 1.
What happened on the 1800 block of West 103rd
Block Club Chicago reported that at about 2:20 a.m. on New Year's Day, an eastbound driver lost control on the 1800 block of West 103rd Street, jumped the curb and crashed into the side of a building. The crash badly damaged Beverly Phono Mart at 1808 W. 103rd St., the Beverly Area Arts Alliance's Ephemera Gallery at 1810 W. 103rd St., and The FoundHERS Suite on the second floor of 1808.
Ten months later, the three businesses are in different places, and the Hurrah lineup doesn't show that.
| Business | Address before the crash | Where it stands this fall |
|---|---|---|
| Beverly Phono Mart | 1808 W. 103rd St. | Operating as the BPM Express pop-up at 1802 W. 103rd St. |
| The FoundHERS Suite | 1808 W. 103rd St., 2nd floor | Moved out after the building was deemed unsafe; reopening plans point to a South Side location outside Beverly |
| Ephemera Gallery | 1810 W. 103rd St. | Check with the Beverly Area Arts Alliance before planning around this stop |
Beverly Phono Mart is two doors down. Owners Chantala Kommanivanh and Mallory McClaire opened BPM Express at 1802 W. 103rd St. on Feb. 6. Block Club covered the opening and quoted McClaire on why they wanted a physical shop:
"Shopping for records is a hands-on experience. You can find what you're looking for online, but that element of discovery isn't necessarily there when you're online."
The pop-up was still running this summer. The shop's own news page advertised an album event at "BPM Express: 1802 west 103rd st" on Aug. 14, 2026. The Beverly Area Arts Alliance's Sept. 26 Art Walk venue list also gave Phono Mart's address as 1802 W. 103rd St. In February, the pop-up's hours were Fridays noon to 6 p.m., Saturdays 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Sundays 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. If you're going for the Christmas records on Dec. 12, head for 1802.
The FoundHERS Suite holiday market is unlikely to happen on 103rd. The Southland Development Authority reported that the building was deemed unsafe and that the coworking community was ordered out by the end of March. As of the authority's Aug. 30 update, founder LaTanya Orr had submitted a letter of intent on a new space in Chicago, on the South Side. The report said her original plan had been to stay in Beverly. Orr summed up how she sees it in that report: "The assignment was always bigger than the building." The FoundHERS Suite website says it is not hosting tours or events at this time.
Ephemera's parent group, the Beverly Area Arts Alliance, kept its fall calendar going. The Alliance's September Art Walk featured exhibitions at venues that included the Beverly Arts Center and boundary. The Beverly Review put the walk at about 40 venues. The Alliance is the place to ask where the Dec. 12 ornament table will be.
Plotting a Dec. 12 route that matches the street
The 99th Street and Walden/Wood stretch looks like the more reliable half of Holiday Hurrah. Start with the Two Mile photo booth before noon. Then go to Afro Joe's for the late-morning set and Bricktop for caricatures. Finish at 1743 W. 99th St., where Cakewalk Chicago hosts Santa photos from 3 to 4 p.m. On 103rd, the Peanuts Band at Calabria Imports from 1 to 4 p.m. makes a good afternoon anchor, and Phono Mart's records are a short walk away at 1802.
The two strips already worked together this year. Block Club's preview of July's Bevapalooza described more than 25 businesses taking part along the "99th and 103rd Street Metra corridors."
One stop the holiday pages don't list yet
Chitown Sweets opened in August 2026 at 1803 W. 95th St., a few blocks north of both corridors. Block Club reported that owner Maddy Taylor's menu includes smoothies, mini pancakes and lemonade. Hours are 8:30 a.m. to 8 p.m. on weekdays and 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. on weekends. It's open well past the posted Santa hour on any of the four Saturdays, and it's the newest name in this calendar.
If your December plans have you mapping Western, 99th and 103rd, and you'd like to know what your own Beverly home would bring before spring, Tim Good Group is happy to walk you through it. Start with "What's My Home Worth?" and we'll take it from there.
