Sycamore Pumpkin Festival
A beloved five-day autumn festival in the DeKalb County seat of Sycamore featuring pumpkin contests, a grand parade, carnival rides, and the crowning of a Pumpkin Festival king and queen.
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"One of northwest Illinois's stalwart agricultural shows, held each August in the small county-seat town of Morrison with livestock, 4-H exhibits, and grandstand entertainment."
Whiteside County Central Agricultural Fair
"Fairbury's beloved county fair in Livingston County brings together livestock shows, carnival rides, and grandstand events in this small prairie town each late August."
Fairbury Fair
"Held in the small village of Pecatonica rather than the city of Rockford, the Winnebago County Fair is a genuine rural gathering with 4-H shows, livestock competitions, and demolition derbies."
Winnebago County Fair
"The Bureau County Fair in Princeton is a long-running north-central Illinois agricultural show featuring livestock competitions, harness racing, and nightly grandstand entertainment."
Bureau County Fair
"A free three-day hot-air balloon festival in southern Illinois with tethered balloon glows lighting the evening sky above Fairview Park, live entertainment, and over 100 food and craft vendors."
Centralia Balloon Fest
"A small-town summer celebration in the McLean County village of Danvers (pop. ~1,100) bringing the community together for a classic Illinois village days festival each August."
Danvers Days
"A full week of traditional county fair life in Coldwater -- livestock judging, 4-H competitions, carnival rides, and grandstand events -- anchoring the agricultural calendar of the small-farm communities of Branch County in southern Michigan."
Branch County Fair
"A beloved three-day community fair in its 49th year, held in the Adirondack foothills hamlet of Mayfield, serving as a true local gathering for Fulton County's rural communities."
Mayfield Bannertown Fair
"The westernmost UP county fair serves the iron-mining and logging heritage communities of Gogebic County and the Wisconsin border, gathering agricultural exhibits, livestock, and local traditions in Ironwood each August."
Gogebic County Fair
"Held on the shores of Lake Chatuge every August, this long-running Appalachian fair celebrates the mountain heritage of Towns County with craft demonstrations, old-time music, and a recreated pioneer village."
Georgia Mountain Fair
"The Alpena County Fair on Thunder Bay serves the agricultural and fishing communities of the northeast Lower Peninsula with a traditional week of livestock, 4-H exhibits, and fairground entertainment in a county known for its pristine Great Lakes waters."
Alpena County Fair
"The great rural gathering of the Upper Peninsula, held annually in Escanaba since the early 20th century, brings together agricultural exhibits, grandstand entertainment, carnival rides, and fair foods to serve the farming and forestry communities spread across Michigan's vast northern wilderness."
Upper Peninsula State Fair