Midway Village Museum hosts one of the largest World War II battle re-enactments in the nation, with more than 1,200 uniformed re-enactors and more than 60 vintage tanks and other armored vehicles.
Artists and ensembles from 22 countries perform at the Chicago Cultural Center and other venues around the city. Admission is free and first-come, first-served.
More than 125 historic buildings — theaters, breweries, mansions, cathedrals, hotels, museums — are open to the public, and many offer free guided tours.
There will be music, food and a juried art show along the St. Croix River, in Lakefront Park.
At this huge festival in west-central Wisconsin, there'll be marsh tours, pie-eating contests and more than 1,000 booths selling antiques, produce and arts and crafts.
At this big riverfront festival, there's food, music and carnival rides, plus the opening Torchlight Parade and the Maple Leaf Parade on Saturday morning.
There will be music, wagon rides, chainsaw carving, children's activities and, of course, beer from New Glarus Brewing.
There'll be arts and crafts and music in this southwest Wisconsin village. The big parade is Sunday.
Listen to non-stop music during this free festival at venues in and around Midway Plaisance, near the Museum of Science and Industry and Lake Michigan.
At the Ermatinger Clergue National Historic Site near the Soo Locks, see War of 1812 reenactments, musket demonstrations, cannon fire and living history.
The festival in this town on the Illinois River between Ottawa and Joliet offers stagecoach and train rides, a crackerbox derby, a pie-eating contest, music, a carnival, Saturday fireworks and a parade at 2 p.m. Sunday.
In the old lead-mining district in southwest Wisconsin, play shove ha'penny in the Kiddleywink Pub, eat figgyhobbin and pasties, listen to tommyknocker tales and tour Cornish miners' cottages.
This festival at Western Gateway Park features Latino music, dancing, arts, cultural booths, children's activities and a corn-eating contest.
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