VIDEO: Take Your Family on a Christmas Lights Tour

The best and brightest in New Lenox were awarded this week when the announced the winners of its holiday lights contest.

If you want to take your family around town on a tour de tinsel, click through the map above. Each snowflake represents one of the participants in the Park District's contest. To see the address of the home, click on the icon.

Want to maximize your trip? Use Mapquest's Route Planner.

The winners in the Park District contest are also noted on the map, but here's a rundown:

The contest was sponsored by , with first-place winners getting a $20 gift card to the restaurant and other winners get a free 7-inch pizza.

"Christmas is my husband's favorite holiday," said Angie Hausner, whose home won best lights. "We had something new every year."

I drove by each first-place winner's home last night, and all three were must-see. The Keith and Meyer homes have a setup where you can tune your car radio to 99.1 FM and the music will sync with the lights show. The Hausner family also has music with its lights, though not through the radio.

$100,000 for Local Schools!

The festivities aren't over, though, because your holiday decorations can still win a big prize: $100,000 for local schools. Patch is running a national Deck the House contest in which you can enter photos or video to compete for readers' votes. View local entries and add your own here.

To see photos of the Park District's 2010 winners, read "."

And if you have a suggestion for another great house to add to the tour, leave in the comments section.