Festivals and Fairs
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Festivals May 31 to June 6: Gilberts Community Days, Cream of Wheaton, Roselle Lions Rose Festival, Pride parades and moreMay 28, 2024 12:00 pm - Mark your calendars for Gilberts Community Days, Cream of Wheaton, Pride parades in Elgin, Waukegan and Buffalo Grove, Chicago’s Puerto Rican Festival and more happening this week.
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Memorial Day parades, services, fundraisers in the suburbsMay 26, 2024 11:18 pm - Memorial Day parades, services and observances throughout the suburbs will pay tribute to those who made the ultimate sacrifice.
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5 things to know about Memorial Day, including its evolution and controversies
May 26, 2024 5:30 am - NORFOLK, Va. — Memorial Day is supposed to be about mourning the nation’s fallen service members, but it’s come to anchor the unofficial start of summer and a long weeken...
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Aurora’s GreenFest goes ‘electric’ on June 8May 25, 2024 12:46 am - Aurora GreenFest will return to Prisco Community Center from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, June 8. The free and green-minded festival will have a full day of activities,...
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Plan for four days of summer fun at Cream of WheatonMay 23, 2024 11:03 pm - Kick off summer with the Cream of Wheaton on May 30 to June 2. The bandshell at Memorial Park will be rocking with four days of music from over a dozen music groups.
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Summer Olympics to be theme for the annual Rose Parade, part of the four-day Rose FestivalMay 23, 2024 10:38 pm - The Roselle Lions Rose Festival, now in its 62nd year, offers a family-friendly weekend of live music, a car show, 5K race, the Rose Parade, a festival food court, and mo...
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Kick off the summer festival season with Gilberts Community DaysMay 23, 2024 7:04 pm - Gilberts' biggest event of the year, full of music, food and fun, returns on May 30 to June 2.
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Aurora salutes World War II veteran who will lead Memorial Day ParadeMay 23, 2024 3:00 pm - In May 1945, he was wounded at war in the Pacific Ocean, praying to be rescued. Seventy-nine years later, in May 2024, he led a crowd at Aurora City Hall in singing “God ...
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World War II veteran and hometown hero to lead Aurora Memorial Day ParadeMay 22, 2024 11:33 am - Aurora will celebrate the 156th anniversary of Memorial Day during the 2024 Aurora Memorial Day Parade held in honor of the brave men and women who paid the ultimate pri...
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Best Bets: Billy Strings at Allstate, mini-golf opens at Morton Arboretum, Josh Gates at GeneseeMay 21, 2024 2:26 pm - Grammy-winning guitarist Billy Strings headlines Rosemont’s Allstate Arena, mini-golf tees off at The Morton Arboretum, and Josh Gates treats audiences to “An Evening of Legends, Mysteries and Tales of Adventure” at the Genesee.