BLOOMINGDALE — Just a germ of an idea two years ago, an inflatable Christmas display at a Macopin ... and found a Chinese company to create the figures. The first experiment, a 22-foot ...

two nearly 6-foot-high nutcracker figures and a blow-up Christmas tree. The kids, 7-year-old son Brett and 5-year-old daughter Casey, can’t get enough of them. “They go up and hug the blow-ups ...

From one home to neighborhoods, the region definitely has the Christmas spirit. Several of the displays include dazzling lights and music alongside blow-up figures of Santa Claus and elves.