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Time to celebrate summer in Roselle

Posted June 01, 2016 1:00 am

Daily Herald report

Roselle's summer party season is ready to begin.

The village's annual Rose Festival, sponsored by the Roselle Lions Club, opens at 6 p.m. Thursday and continues through Sunday at the Roselle train station parking lot at Irving Park Road and Maple Avenue. The four-day event will feature food, carnival rides and music.

Admission is free and there will be free musical entertainment each night in the Festival Miller Beer Garden.

At 8 p.m. Thursday, Mall Rats Chicago will be the first band to perform. Other musical acts include Mason Rivers at 8 p.m. Friday; Woogie at 4 p.m. Saturday; Howard and the White Boys at 8 p.m. Saturday; and Zydeco Voodoo at 4 p.m. Sunday.

There also will be carnival rides. On Saturday and Sunday, riders will be able to buy $20 wristbands that allow them to take in all the rides they want between noon and 5 p.m.

The hours for the festival are 6 to 11 p.m. Thursday, 6 p.m. to midnight Friday, noon to midnight Saturday and noon to 10 p.m. Sunday.

For more information, visit roselle.il.us.

By Wednesday afternoon, crews already were done setting up for Roselle's Rose Festival, which starts Thursday at the Roselle train station parking lot. Paul Michna/pmichna@dailyherald.com

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