Friday, September 5, 2025

  1. Festival of the Vine

    Geneva, IL2025-09-05

    There's an arts and crafts show, flower market, music, wine tasting and sampling of food from local restaurants.

  2. International Fireworks Championships

    Traverse City, MI2025-09-05

    In Turtle Creek Stadium, teams show their best pyrotechnics, accompanied by music. Tickets go on sale in mid-May and sell out.

  3. Taste of Chicago

    Chicago, IL2025-09-05

    The city's big sampling festival returns to Grant Park at the end of summer, with free dance lessons and free performances on two stages.

  4. Defeat of Jesse James Days

    Northfield, MN2025-09-05

    In this college town south of the Twin Cities, there's a fine-arts festival, tractor pulls, a bike tour, reenactments of the famous bank raid and a Sunday parade.

  5. Sandwich Fair

    Sandwich, IL2025-09-05

    This northeast Illinois fair, held since 1888, features exhibits, entertainment and music plus harness racing, tractor pulls and demolition derbies.

  6. Paw Paw Wine & Harvest Festival

    Paw Paw, MI2025-09-05

    This big festival in southwest Michigan wine country features music on three stages, Friday fireworks, an art fair, motorcycle and bicycle tours, grape stomps and a Sunday parade.

  7. James J. Hill Days

    Wayzata, MN2025-09-05

    This Minneapolis suburb features a street market and carnival, dachshund races, a craft-beer fest, logrolling and fireworks on Saturday and an air show and 3 p.m. parade on Sunday.

  8. Villa Louis Carriage Classic

    Prairie du Chien, WI2025-09-05

    The Victorian estate on the Mississippi River hosts horses, restored carriages and drivers in period dress for competitive arena and cross-country sport driving, a passion of the frontier aristocrats who built it.

  9. Harvest Moon Festival

    Ely, MN2025-09-05

    In Whiteside Park, there's an arts fair plus music, an old-time medicine show and pony rides and a petting zoo for kids.

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