LOCKPORT, IL — 20,000 lights synced up to music is what you’ll see at the Billquist family’s holiday light display in Lockport.
Lights on McCabe can be seen at 17920 S. McCabe Lane in Lockport, and the family has been “going all out with Christmas lights for years,” Gus Billquist told Patch.
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“My older brother actually got me hooked with his display of the more traditional, incandescent, multi-color lights years and years ago,” Billquist said.
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The family kept that same theme originally, and added more and more every year until the whole house was decorated.
“Each year, as the kids got older and got more into it, we kind of ran out of more things to add without making it look like too much,” Billquist said.
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Deciding to take it to the “next level,” the family dove head-first into computer-controlled lights.
” We started transitioning from traditional LED lights into these new controllable lights about three years ago,” Billquist said.
Now in its fourth year, the holiday light display is synced up to music, and the show with music runs from 4:30 to 5 p.m., and a show without music from 5 to 10 p.m.
“Each year we phase out more and more of the traditional lights and add more of the new lights,” Billquist said. “We spend a lot of the year preparing new things, adding new songs and working on the display to get ready for the Christmas season. We already have plans for next year’s expansion. We really do just love seeing the community happy when they come by.”
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