Santa from Santa's Village

I would personally like to take the time to thank all the families and groups that visited Santa’s Village Azoosment Park this past 2012...

Chicago Tribune Steve Johnson - Tribune reporter 4:46 PM CDT, August 14, 2012 It is probably not accurate and certainly not provable t...

This past Mother’s Day, May 13, 2012, Santa’s Village Azoosment Park reopened for its 2nd full season. The park, which originally opened i...

Last Saturday, April 21, 2012, upwards of 700 Santas and Mrs. Clauses came to the 2nd annual Jim Yellig Santa Claus Workshop in Santa Clau...

Sometimes I sit back and ponder what my life would have been like without Santa Claus. Today is Easter Sunday 2012 and I have been in full r...

Spent the last weekend starting off the live appearance schedule for Santa’s Village. I started the year with 200 days slated in the suit fo...

With Christmas 2011 in the books and folks looking forward to the New Year and beyond, people sometimes forget that the children and adults ...

In 1977 at the age of fourteen I was asked to be Santa Claus for the Watseka Area Chamber of Commerce . It would be a position that I would ...

With Christmas just about a month away I like to take the time to stop and reflect about just who I am portraying and what it really means t...

As time goes by and we get older, you realize how important some people are in your life. Over 20 some years ago, I was introduced to a grea...

It such a simple piece of playground equipment, a relic of a gone by era, and one of the most treasured attractions at Santa’s Village. The ...

This past weekend we went out to Albion, New York to film some segments for the documentary “They Wore The Red Suit” that we have been work...