Streamwood celebrates summer in style
This year's Streamwood Summer Celebration, slated for Friday through Sunday and organized by the Streamwood Chamber of Commerce, Park District and village features something for everyone.
With a theme of "Great American Heroes," the festival will take place at Hoosier Grove Park, 700 W. Irving Park Road, Streamwood.
The event has pulled in crowds of up to 5,000 on Friday and Saturday evenings, said coordinator Gary O'Rourke.
The celebration will feature a parade, carnival, craft show, activities for the children, games, food/beer tent, a Sunday morning golf outing and entertainment each day on both the children's stage as well as the main stage.
Main stage entertainers include 7th Heaven, White Saddle Band, Modern Day Romeos, Vinyl Highway, Parrothead Express and AARA. Live Band Karaoke, which provides the band while participants provide the lead vocals and stage presence, will take place 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Saturday.
The children's tent will offer sand art, candle art, sandy candy and spin art creations. Prices for crafts range from $1 to $3, although open easels are available for kids throughout the event for no charge.
On Sunday, there will be a golf outing at Streamwood Oaks. Registration and a breakfast buffet begins at 6:30 a.m., with registration ending at 7 a.m. and breakfast ending at 7:30 a.m. for the shotgun start. Cost is $27 and includes breakfast, carts cost extra. Golfers can still sign up but there are only a few spots left for groups of four, so contact Streamwood Oaks to reserve a spot. Call (630) 483-1881.
Barbara Lund, a park district fest coordinator, says about 45 vendors will be on hand for the business expo, which will be open each day of the fest. Most of the vendors are from the Streamwood area.
The parade, always a fun-filled event traveling down Streamwood Boulevard with hundreds of pounds of candy and other goodies to be passed out to those watching, steps off at 10:30 a.m. Saturday. Marching in the parade will be the Streamwood police and fire departments, Mayor Billie Roth and the trustees, the Ladina Clowns, the Jessie White Tumbling Team, the Madina Black Horse Troop, the Limited Edition Big Band, the West Suburban Home School Band, the Madina Flying Carpets and about 92 other entries, Lund said.
Streamwood's Summer Celebration 2008
FRIDAY
5-9 p.m. Children's Craft Activity Area
5-10 p.m. Business Expo
5:30-8:30 p.m. Buster and Bingo the Clowns
5:30-10:30 p.m. Children's rides, attractions
5:30 p.m. 7th Heaven, main stage
7-10:30 p.m. DUCKY
7:30 p.m. Paper airplane contest
8:30 p.m. Modern Day Romeos, main stage
SATURDAY
10:30 a.m. Parade; steps off from Streamwood Boulevard at Bartlett Road, then east on Streamwood to festival grounds
Noon-8 p.m. Business Expo
Noon-9 p.m. Children's Craft Activity Area
Noon-10:30 p.m. Children's rides, attractions
Noon-4 p.m. Unlimited carnival rides, $15 wristband
12:30 p.m. Ice-cream eating contest, main stage
1-4 p.m. Buster and Bingo the Clowns
1-4 p.m. Hoosier Grove Museum
2 p.m. Dan the Animal Man, children's stage
2-10:30 p.m. DUCKY
2:30 p.m. Vinyl Highway, main stage
3:30 p.m. Chris Fascione, juggling, funny stories, children's stage
4 p.m. Talent show, main stage
5 p.m. Ken Schultz, The Flying Fool, children's stage
5:30 p.m. Live Band Karaoke, main stage
5:30-7:30 p.m. Buster and Bingo the Clowns
7:30 p.m. Hula Hoop contest, main stage
8:30 p.m. ARRA, main stage
9:15 p.m. Fireworks
SUNDAY
7:30 a.m. Golf outing
Noon-4 p.m. $15 unlimited carnival rides
Noon-5 p.m. Business Expo
Noon-5 p.m. Classic Car Show
Noon-8 p.m. Children's Craft Activity Area; children's rides, attractions
1 p.m. Esmer Emel Bellydancers Demonstration, main stage
1-4 p.m. Hoosier Grove Museum
1:30-5:30 p.m. Buster and Bingo the Clowns
1:30 p.m. Kathleen Gibson and the Amazing Invisible Jitterbug Band, children's stage
2 p.m. Water balloon contest, main stage
2-7 p.m. DUCKY
3 p.m. Parrothead Express, main stage
3:30 p.m. Dennis DeBondt, very funny magic, children's stage
4:30 p.m. Marshmallow Golf Drive Contest, main stage
5 p.m. Dan the Animal Man, children's stage
5:30 p.m. White Saddle Band, main stage
7:30 p.m. Raffle drawing