There will be eating contests, pig crafts, an amateur bacon cook-off and many bacon dishes, including ice cream.
This Douglass Park music festival also features a circus sideshow revue and carnival.
This street fair on Williamson Street on the isthmus features food, vendors, music on three stages and a parade at 11 a.m. Sunday.
The festival in this town next to big Horicon Marsh features bed races, a car show, craft fair, bag tournament and music.
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.
On the shore of Lake Minnetonka, there's a history tour, apple pie-eating contest, music and a street dance.
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.
This bluff town, across the Mississippi River from La Crosse, celebrates fall with apple-orchard tours, a 5K run, children's activities, music, kickball and cornhole tournaments, a noon Saturday kiddie parade and a grand parade at 1 p.m. Sunday.
Sample wine from more than 25 wineries and listen to music at this festival near Starved Rock State Park.
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.
The city calls this festival at Navy Pier the largest free performing-arts festival in the Midwest, with more than 100 artists and organizations across five stages.
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