This biennial festival in Wisconsin's cheese-making region features a cow-milking contest, a carnival, a Kids Street and Family Farm Adventure Tent and a big parade at 12:30 p.m. on Sunday.
This Douglass Park music festival also features a circus sideshow revue and carnival.
In this town southwest of Des Moines, there are balloon races and night glows, a parade with marching-band contest, an arts and crafts fair and a flea market.
Expect entertainment on four stages, kids' activities, keg-rolling, sauerkraut-eating and stein-holding contests and a parade at 3 p.m. Saturday.
There's a pumpkin regatta — yes, people paddling hollowed-out pumpkins across Cedar Creek — at the fest in this historic mill town just north of Milwaukee. There's also a scarecrow contest, grape stomp, hay rides, juried arts fair and lots of food.
On the shore of Lake Minnetonka, there's a history tour, apple pie-eating contest, music and a street dance.
Sample wine from more than 25 wineries and listen to music at this festival near Starved Rock State Park.
This street party includes a car show, cornhole and chalk-art contests, music and artisans and winds up with the auction of 25 artist-created cherries.
This street fair on Williamson Street on the isthmus features food, vendors, music on three stages and a parade at 11 a.m. Sunday.
This festival in central Iowa, just west of Ames, is named for a steam engine and features a spike-driving contest, mud volleyball and rides on the Boone and Scenic Valley Railroad. A parade is Saturday.
This traditional powwow in Land of Memories Park commemorates the 38 Dakota who were hanged after the 1862 U.S.-Dakota war.
Artists and ensembles from 22 countries perform at the Chicago Cultural Center and other venues. Admission is free.
There's an arts and crafts fair, children's games, contests and live music downtown.
The harbor-side North House Folk School celebrates with storytelling, traditional workshops, an artisan marketplace and concerts by songwriter/musicians.
This street festival in the Bay View neighborhood includes music on four stages, a children's area, cooking demonstrations and a strong man competition.
This festival at Western Gateway Park features Latino music, dancing, arts, cultural booths, children's activities and a corn-eating contest.
There will be music, dancing, children's games and lock and dam tours in this antebellum town on the Mississippi River.
Racine's biggest street festival features stages of entertainment and a car show, art walk, carnival rides and zones for kids and sports.
The parade begins in Hancock and ends in Houghton at Dee Stadium, where there's a festival with music, dancing and food from around the world.
The 43-acre Franconia Sculpture Park is holding its annual celebration, with bands, food trucks and sculpture tours. It's at the intersection of U.S. 8 and Minnesota 95, between Shafer and Taylors Falls.
The city calls this festival at Navy Pier the largest free performing-arts festival in the Midwest, with 110 artists and organizations across five stages, including Jeff Tweedy on Saturday night.
Admission is free at all Historical Society sites, including the Minnesota History Center, James J. Hill House and Historic Fort Snelling in St. Paul, Mill City Museum in Minneapolis, the Snake River Fur Post in Pine City and Split Rock Lighthouse.
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