Where To Celebrate New Year’s Eve 2022 In Algonquin, LITH

ALGONQUIN AND LAKE IN THE HILLS,IL — New Year's Eve bashes at the Dole Mansion and Avante Banquets will draw people out of the cold and indoors to ring in 2023 with area residents. There will also be a Noon Year's Eve event for kids at the Algonquin Public Library this Friday and a bowling party at Sideouts in Island Lake.

Here is a look at some events happening in and around Algonquin and Lake in the Hills this Saturday, Dec. 31:

• New Year's Eve at the Dole Mansion, 401 Country Club Road, Crystal Lake: The New Year's Eve bash starts at 8 p.m. More information is available here.
• New Year's Eve Gala at Avante Banquests with Tony Ocean and Dj Jerry Jamz Renda: The festivities run from 7:30 p.m. on Dec. 31 and continue until 2 a.m. on Jan. 1. More information via Avanta Banquets website.
• 750 Cucina Rustica, 7 Jandus Road in Cary: Music by Poetic Karma Duo will start at 7 p.m. on Dec. 31 and there will be a champagne toast at midnight. Reservations can be made online here.
• New Year's Eve Bowling and Pizza Buffet at Sideouts, 4018 W. Roberts Road, Island Lake: You can reserve a lane for up to five people for 2.5 hours. There will also be a buffet with pizza, pasta and salad. More via Facebook.
• Noon Year's Eve event held at 11:30 a.m. on Dec. 30 at the Algonquin Area Public Library, 2600 Harnish Drive: Ring in the New Year with a family-friendly dance party, and dance along to pop hits and storytime favorites, stop by our photo booth, make a memory book and countdown to noon and an apple juice toast. More information via Patch.

In the United States, one of the most popular New Year’s Eve traditions is, of course, the dropping of the giant ball in New York City’s Times Square. Various cities have adopted their own iterations of the event — the Peach Drop in Atlanta, the Chick Drop in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania and the giant Potato Drop in Boise, Idaho.

The end of one year and beginning of another is often celebrated with the singing of “Auld Lang Syne,” a Scottish folk song whose title roughly translates to “days gone by,” according to Encyclopedia Britannica and History.com.

The history of New Year’s resolutions dates back 8,000 years to ancient Babylonians, who would make promises to return borrowed objects and pay outstanding debts at the beginning of the new year, in mid-March when they planted their crops.

According to legend, if they kept their word, pagan gods would grant them favor in the coming year. If they broke the promise, they would fall out of God’s favor, according to a history of New Year’s resolutions compiled by North Hampton Community College New Center in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.

Many secular New Year’s resolutions focus on imagining new, improved versions of ourselves. The failure rate of New Year’s resolutions is about 80 percent, according to U.S. News & World Report. There are myriad reasons, but a big one is they’re made out of remorse for gaining weight, for example, and aren’t accompanied by a shift in attitude and a plan to meet the stress and discomfort of changing a habit or condition.