Widow Reveals the Emotional Reason She Gave Her Family’s Tree to Rockefeller Center

Judy Russ says her late husband, Dan Russ, always believed the giant spruce outside their home would one day make a perfect ...

Rockefeller Center Christmas tree honoring donor’s late husband lifted into place as awed crowd looks on

The massive Rockefeller Center Christmas tree was lifted into place in the Midtown hub Saturday, marking the official start ...

City of Chicago selects 68-foot spruce from Glenview as official Christmas tree

Chicago's 112th Christmas tree was donated by the Mason family in north suburban Glenview. The 68-foot Norway spruce is now ...
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Local spruce to become 'world's most famous Christmas tree'

This year’s “world’s most famous Christmas tree” was donated by the Russ family of East Greenbush. WAMC’s Samantha Simmons ...

This year’s Millennium Park Christmas tree is a 67-foot-tall Norway spruce from Glenview

About 10 years later, the homeowner planted another tree beside the Norway spruce — a pine tree that came with a McDonald’s Happy Meal. It was McDonald’s response to then-President H. W. Bush’s 1990 ...