Professional musicians, many of them world-famous, offer free concerts nearly every evening in Millennium Park's beautiful Pritzker Pavilion. This year's schedule includes favorites by Beethoven, Stravinsky, Gershwin and Debussy as well as songs from Rodgers & Hammerstein and two performances of "Carmina Burana.''
The fair in this Milwaukee suburb features big-name musicians, a sea-lion show, a daily parade and lots of contests, including hog-calling, cookie-stacking and cream puff-eating.
Hardy, Jon Pardi and Cody Johnson are among the headliners at this big country festival in west-central Minnesota.
This Manitoba prairie town celebrates its heritage with pavilions representing 44 nationalities, offering music, dance and food at many venues.
See a diaper derby, outhouse races and mullet contest, among many other contests, and don't miss the butter sculptures.
In this town on the east edge of Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore, there will be music, food and arts and crafts vendors.
This family-friendly festival includes music on five stages and workshops at El Rancho Mañana Campground, 20 miles west of St. Cloud.
The two towns stretch a 680-pound, 2,400-foot rope across the Mississippi River for the ultimate tug of war. There's also a parade, fireworks, children's games, concerts and carnival rides. Score so far: Illinois 26, Iowa 11.
The festival in this town between Rochelle and La Salle features nearly 50 tons of free buttered corn, live music, a flea market, a carnival and a parade.
The annual music fest on the Lake Superior harbor showcases national and regional acts on three stages.
This nonprofit festival is in the southwest Wisconsin bluffs, half an hour north of Winona, Minn. Darius Rucker, Brad Paisley, ZZ Top and Third Eye Blind are among the headliners, which include a variety of country and rock stars. Three-day tickets start at $45, $25 for kids. In addition to music, there will be an arts fair, children's activities and Saturday fireworks.
This big heritage fest on the banks of the Mississippi includes Irish Got Talent and best legs in a kilt contests, hurling demonstrations, dancing and lots of music.
This festival at the Rock Island County Fairgrounds includes balloon glows, launches, tethered rides and a play area for children.
This folk festival is on the shores of Lake Superior, east of Thunder Bay near Nipigon. Camping is on-site.
The free, family-friendly festival in this northwoods town includes dance, crafts, children's activities and instruction in Franklin Park.
There's a big 1 p.m. parade downtown, followed by Riverfest in Allen Park.
Re-enactors from across the continent gather at Grand Portage National Monument for the annual fur-trade rendezvous; next door, the Grand Portage Band of Lake Superior Chippewa holds a powwow. Reserve lodgings far in advance.
Eat until you're blue in the face during the festival in this Lake Michigan beach town. There's a pie-eating contest, riverfront concerts, an arts fair and a big parade on Saturday.
This outdoor festival on Nicollet Mall features chalk and spray art, murals, performances, food and an artisan fair.
This town west of Green Bay calls itself Home of the Hamburger, based on a local 15-year-old who put ground-beef patties in a bun, called them hamburgers and sold them at the Seymour Fair in 1885.
The pirates invade this Lake Charlevoix town on Friday via the schooner Madeline and the Little Traverse Bay ferry. On Saturday, there's a 10 a.m. pirate parade, a treasure hunt and games for kids, a river raft adventure, street performers and buskers and finally the Battle of Boyne River to drive the pirates out.
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