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.
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 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.
This festival at Western Gateway Park features Latino music, dancing, arts, cultural booths, children's activities and a corn-eating contest.
This self-guided tour of homes is on one of the nation's best-preserved Victorian streets. Guests also can buy tickets for a pre-tour evening and a post-tour reception.
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.
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