Where To Celebrate New Year’s Eve 2022 In Deerfield

DEERFIELD, IL — As 2022 winds down, it's a perfect time to look back at the last 12 months while also celebrating the arrival of a new year. In the Deerfield area, there will be plenty of opportunities to ring in 2023, including events for kids, shows, bowling, dinners and champagne toasts.

Here is a look at some events happening in the Deerfield area:

• Noon Year's Eve Party [Drop-in], 10:30 a.m. to 12 p.m. Dec. 30, Deerfield Public Library, 920 Waukegan Road, Deerfield.
• Noon Year's Eve (Deerfield Park District), 10:45 a.m. to 12 p.m. Dec. 31, Sachs Recreation Center, 455 Lake Cook Road, Deerfield. Pre-registration required.
• New Year's Eve Brunch and Dinner, 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. (brunch) and 4 p.m. to 11 p.m. (dinner) Dec. 31, Bobby's Deerfield, 695 Deerfield Road, Deerfield.
• Celebrate New Year's, 11 a.m to 2 a.m. Dec. 31, Rosebud Deerfield, 711 Deerfield Road, Deerfield.
• New Year's Eve On The Lanes, Dec. 31, Bowlero Buffalo Grove, 350 McHenry Road, Buffalo Grove.
• New Year's Eve Stand Up & Laugh, 9:30 p.m. Dec. 31, Social Bar & Grill, 401 Dundee Road, Buffalo Grove.
• The Second City's Jingle Bell Ruckus, 7:30 p.m. Dec. 31, Metropolis Performing Arts Centre, 111 W. Campbell St., Arlington Heights.

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.