Countdown to TBOX2026
What is TBOX?? The World's Largest, Longest-Running Christmas Bar Crawl... Rocking Wrigleyville, Chicago since 1996! Find out what makes TBOX SPECTACULAR Here!
TBOX Bar Crawls has proudly supported local Chicago and Lakeview Local Charities! Over our years in business, Festa Parties Incorporated, our company that produces TBOX (R), has donated over $370,000 to local charities including Lakeview Pantry Food Bank, the Lakeview East Community Partnership, the Chicago Dance Marathon benefiting Lurie Children’s hospital, and many other great local charitable organizations and nonprofits. AND 🙂 – we don’t just do Cereal Shots at TBOX… we’ve donated TONS of boxes of Cereal to Lakeview Pantry as well to help share the sweetness! Read More about all the organizations we have donated to here.
30 Years of Christmas Crawling! TBOX 2026 will be Saturday, December 12 in Wrigleyville, Chicago!
TBOX is coming back for YEAR 30 on Saturday, December 12th in Wrigleyville, Chicago, starting with Opening Ceremonies at Cubby Bear at 10AM and Crawling thru Wrigleyville’s Best Bars! Ticket includes Gift Cards to use during crawl, free breakfast buffets, and much, much more! The earlier you get the tickets, the best deal you’ll get, so tell your friends!
Do you like dressing in crazy costumes, eating Froot Loops and drinking festive beverages starting at 10AM, supporting dozens of local businesses, helping donate $370,000 to local charities, being around Chicago’s funnest & coolest partiers, and being part of an only – in – Chicago party tradition that has been going strong for 3 decades? All for less than 1/4 of the price of an average sports or concert ticket? Then TBOX, Festa’s 30th Annual Original 12 Bars of Xmas on December 12 in Wrigleyville, Chicago — is the party for YOU! MORE
TBOX® has been featured in Local and Wordwide Media including RedEye, Thrillist, TimeOut, Playboy, WCIU TV, WFLD Fox Chicago TV, WGN Radio and TV, Chicagoist, ABC, and many more. And Celebrities like Country Superstar BRETT ELDREDGE, Reality TV Stars from BIG BROTHER® and The BACHELOR® have attended TBOX ® MORE
Click to learn all about the History of TBOX®, how it started as a small gathering for Founder Christopher Festa and friends in 1996, and eventually attracted over a quarter million crawlers, and become the world’s largest holiday bar crawl.
Click to See what you’ve been missing – or see yourself – in our photo album of some of the best shots from TBOX from the past 30 Years. It’s not your ordinary Christmas Party!
Click to See even more of what you’ve been missing in our action-packed TBOX Bar Crawl Videos – Highlights from the Events, as well as TV Appearances and Interviews about the 12 Bars of Xmas Pub Crawl in Wrigleyville, Chicago.
TBOX Bar Crawls has proudly supported local Chicago and Lakeview Local Charities! Over our years in business, Festa Parties Incorporated, our company that produces TBOX (R), has donated over $370,000 to local charities including Lakeview Pantry Food Bank, the Lakeview East Community Partnership, the Chicago Dance Marathon benefiting Lurie Children’s hospital, and many other great local charitable organizations and nonprofits. AND 🙂 – we don’t just do Cereal Shots at TBOX… we’ve donated TONS of boxes of Cereal to Lakeview Pantry as well to help share the sweetness! Read More about all the organizations we have donated to here.
TBOX (R) is a registered trademark of Festa Parties Incorporated, and does business as TBOX Bar Crawls. TBOX is Festa’s Original Twelve Bars of Xmas Chicago Pub Crawl. Founder Christopher Festa began the event for fun with friends in 1996, and by 2003, it had grown to over 2,000 people, and became a business. By 2010, over 10,000 people were attending, and Festa added annual Mardi Gras, Baseball, and other theme pub crawls throughout each year. and Festa has donated over $370,000 to Chicago charities.
