Looking for holiday lights to brighten your spirits? Here are some around Chicago to check out.

Bronzeville lights: a Christmas display at a house in the 3600 block of South Prairie Avenue. | Tyler LaRiviere / Sun-Times

dWhat makes a great holiday light display?

It doesn’t have to be the biggest or most dazzling. It just needs to make you smile every time you walk or drive past it.

We asked Sun-Times readers to send in photos of their favorite holiday light displays from homes that they can’t wait to see each year. Here’s a sampling, along with some we spotted.

Logan Square

2600 block of West Logan Boulevard.

Kenwood

4900 block of South Ellis Avenue.

Little Village

2700 block of South Spaulding Avenue.

Bronzeville

4000 block of South Vincennes Avenue.

Little Village

2800 block of South Spaulding Avenue.

Bronzeville

3600 block of South Prairie Avenue.

North Bell Avenue

6900 block of North Bell Avenue, Chicago.

A reader wrote: “What makes the display stand out: Lights up the entire courtyard with Christmas spirit!”

Jefferson Park

4900 block of North Nagle Avenue in Jefferson Park.

Will Farrell does his part to make people stop and look.

Bridgeport

3400 block of South Morgan Street.

Logan Square

2500 block of North Washtenaw Avenue.

Albany Park

4100 block of North St. Louis Avenue.

Heart of Chicago

2100 block of West 21st Place.

Andersonville

5500 block of North Wayne Avenue.

Ukrainian Village

2000 block of West Cortez Street in Ukrainian Village.

Heart of Italy

2300 block of West 22nd Place.

Avondale

3000 block of West Roscoe Street.

Irving Park

3600 block of North Spaulding Avenue.

Logan Square

2600 block of West Logan Boulevard.

Humboldt Park

2400 block of West Thomas Street.

Little Village

2700 block of South Christiana Avenue.

Homer Glen

14000 block of Saddle Brook Lane in Homer Glen.

A reader writes: “All the lights are set to music broadcast over a designated FM station that you can listen to in your car. He has about a 55-minute program that keeps repeating. He’s done this for several years, always adding and tweaking.”

Beverly

101st Street and Oakley in Beverly.

101st Street and Oakley in Beverly

The owner of this home at 101st Street and Oakley in Beverly decided to “deck the deck” this year, using “leftover materials from some basement remodeling” to create a decorate a holiday living room on his deck.

Plainfield

16200 block of South Dan O’Connell Drive, Plainfield.

A reader writes: “This retired couple, along with their grandkids, decorate both the inside and outside to the extreme!! It takes them weeks and weeks to get the job done, and their electric bill goes up substantially, but it’s simply spectacular!!”

Monee

6900 block of Trisha Court, Monee.

A reader writes that this “is one of the largest and coolest dissplays I’ve ever seen. There’s hundreds of lit figures including a FULL choir!”