Champaign-Urbana Area Fall Fairs and Festivals

Apple Dumpling Festival

Where: Atwood
Date(s): 08/15/2025  – 08/16/2025
Highlights: Small town Fun! Head out for live music. food, car show and more!

Mansfield Homecoming

Where: Mansfield
Date(s): 08/15/2025  – 08/17/2025
Highlights: $25 arm bands for Xtreme fun, like zip lines, rock wall and more. Entertainment, face painting, car show and more!

Le Roy Fall Festival

Where: LeRoy
Date(s): 08/19/2025  – 08/23/2025
Highlights: An annual festival with food, games and carnival rides with local vendors, nightly ice cream socials on the gazebo, and free entertainment nightly!

Half Century of Progress

Where: Rantoul
Date(s): 08/21/2025  – 08/24/2025
Highlights: Experience what farming and agriculture was like 50 years ago and beyond with live demonstrations, attractions, daily parades and more. $20 admission for adults, children 12 and under are free.

Mahomet Music Festival

Where: Mahomet
Date(s): 08/22/2025  – 08/23/2025
Highlights: Enjoy FREE live music, parade, carnival rides, street vendors, crafters, bags tournament, and more up and down Main Street. Admission to the fest is FREE; some activities and carnival rides have a cost.

Ogden Street Fest

Where: Ogden
Date(s): 08/22/2025  – 08/23/2025
Highlights: Head out to Ogden to beat the heat with cold drinks, classic vehicles, kids activities and more! There will be fun for all ages! Saturday enjoy Free Laser Tag, Face Painting & Balloon Twisting from 11am-3pm

Riggs Sweetcorn Festival

Where: Urbana
Date(s): 08/23/2025  – 08/24/2025
Highlights: Inaugural sweetcorn festival at Riggs, featuring food trucks, live entertainment and fresh, locally-grown sweetcorn.

Hoopeston National Sweet Corn Festival

Where: Hoopeston
Date(s): 08/28/2025  – 09/01/2025
Highlights: The Hoopeston Sweetcorn Festival is unique in that, besides the normal carnival, demolition derby, Grand Parade and other events, they cook approximately 50 tons of sweetcorn with an antique steam engine and distribute the corn FREE. All events take place at the McFerren Park, located at west Penn Street and IL Route 1.

Westville Labor Day Celebration

Where: Westville
Date(s): 08/29/2025  – 09/01/2025
Highlights: The 114th Westville Labor Day Celebration will be happening August 20-September 1, 2025

Arthur Amish Country Cheese Festival

Where: Arthur
Date(s): 08/30/2025  – 09/01/2025
Highlights: More Cheese - More Fun! Family fun for the whole weekend. Enjoy the festival atmosphere throughout Arthur. Eat a corn dog, sample the Free Cheese, take in a tractor pull, watch a parade, listen to some music, visit an Amish farm shop, shop the sales in town... just enjoy yourself. That's what a visit to Amish Country is about!

Gibson City Harvest Fest

Where: Gibson City
Date(s): 09/13/2025  – 09/14/2025
Highlights: Gibson City Harvest Fest will be held September 13 & 14, 20205 Gibson City Harvest Fest is a celebration of the local harvest season. Music, food, vendors, contests, kids activities – something to do for all ages. Check out www.gibsoncityharvestfest.com for complete details.    

Country Arbors Nursery Harvest Party

Where: Urbana
Date(s): 09/13/2025  – 09/14/2025
Highlights: Head out to Country Arbors Nursery in Urbana for their Harvest Party, kicking off the fall season in style! Enjoy live music, face painting, food trucks, along with a variety of activities and entertainment.

Riggs Oktoberfest

Where: Urbana
Date(s): 09/18/2025  – 09/22/2024
Highlights: Riggs Oktoberfest is a true “Festbier” style, which is crafted to emulate the beers that are served at the Oktoberfest in Munich. Check the schedule for music, food trucks and more Oktoberfest fun.

Swine 'N Dine Festival and BBQ Contest

Where: Paxton
Date(s): 09/20/2025  –
Highlights: Swine N' Dine features live music, kids’ activities, vendors, a bags tournament, a cruise-in, and of course – Great BBQ competition!

Broadlands Homecoming Festival

Where: Broadlands
Date(s): 09/20/2025  –
Highlights: Lots of fun events for all ages are planned including food, a parade, live music, and family fun!

Crop Sciences Harvest Open House

Where: Urbana
Date(s): 09/20/2025  –
Highlights: Crop Sciences is excited to share the scientific advances in agriculture production with those of all ages through fun, hands-on activities. Help them welcome the fall season with pumpkins, popcorn, science, and family fun!

Country Fest

Where: Seymour
Date(s): 09/20/2025  – 09/21/2025
Highlights: A family fun event with pumpkins, mums, apples, craft & food vendors, fun for the kids and more! 

Muncie Fall Festival

Where: Muncie
Date(s): 09/27/2025  – 09/28/2025
Highlights: Don't miss the Muncie Fall Festival! It will be a weekend full of vendors, food trucks, and live music

Apple 'n Pork Festival

Where: Clinton
Date(s): 09/27/2025  – 09/28/2025
Highlights: Food stands featuring old-fashioned food items, antique displays, 19th century-inspired demonstrations and so much more at this large fall festival.

CU Folk and Roots Festival

Where: Urbana
Date(s): 10/02/2025  – 10/04/2025
Highlights: The Champaign-Urbana Folk and Roots Festival is an all-volunteer-run, grassroots festival that brings together national, regional and local artists and folk organizations for over 80 high-quality folk performances and participatory activities throughout downtown Urbana. The festival includes performances, dances, instructional sessions, jams, song-circles, family activities, storytelling, instrument-making and much, much more!

Fall for Mahomet Festival

Where: Mahomet
Date(s): 10/04/2025  –
Highlights: Fall vibes, good food, and great music are headed to Downtown Mahomet! Kids' area with a barrel train, live music, food trucks, pumpkins for sale and so much more at this inaugural festival.

Urbana Fall Fusion Festival

Where: Urbana
Date(s): 10/04/2025  –
Highlights: 40 North and Urbana Arts & Culture Program are taking over downtown Urbana on Saturday, October 4th from 3-7pm for the third annual Urbana Fall Fusion Festival! Enjoy live music, art, performances, , kids' activities, so many pumpkins and more!

Octoberfest at the Mercantile

Where: Monticello
Date(s): 10/05/2025  –
Highlights: Kick off the full fall feeling with this annual fall outdoor festival, bringing you pumpkins from Country Bumpkin Pumpkins, mums from We Produce, LLC, shopping and Smith Burger Co will be making their annual appearance on E. Main Street. They will be adding details as we lock in specifics, so keep check out their Facebook page for updates!

Harvest to Home

Where: Arthur
Date(s): 10/10/2025  – 10/11/2025
Highlights: Harvest to Home returns to broaden activities and demonstrations, teaching show attendees how crops were grown and harvested during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The Amish continue using many of these methods in their farming operations today.

Lake Shelbyville Balloonfest

Where: Shelbyville
Date(s): 10/10/2025  – 10/12/2025
Highlights: Enjoy balloons over Lake Shelbyville!

Sugar Creek Arts Festival

Where: Normal
Date(s): 10/11/2025  –
Highlights: Arts and crafts vendors from across the country display their talents and products at one of the most popular juried art and craft festivals in the Midwest. The event takes place on the streets of Uptown Normal and highlights many of the most talented artists around.

Paxton's Fall Gathering

Where: Paxton
Date(s): 10/11/2025  –
Highlights: Celebrate the season at Paxton's Fall Gathering! Enjoy small town charm at this Fall festival with fun things for all ages.

Scarecrow Festival in AMBUCS Park

Where: Urbana
Date(s): 10/11/2025  –
Highlights: Barrel train rides, hay rack rides, food, and lots of fun!

Fall Family Festival at the Stephens Family YMCA

Where: Champaign
Date(s): 10/18/2025  – 10/18/2025
Highlights: Join the Stephens Family YMCA for a day filled with fun family activities! Lots of family-friendly activities! Lunch will be available for the first 1,000 people!

Harvest Fest & Touch a Truck | Register to reserve a pumpkin by 10/14

Where: Mahomet
Date(s): 10/19/2025  –
Highlights: Autumn activities await you! Enjoy the fun traditions of the season, including pumpkin carving and decorating, hay-rack rides, apple peeling, and more! This year, they are hosting a Touch-A-Truck activity as part of the event! Don’t miss this hands-on chance to get close to equipment used in the forest preserves.

Flannel Fest

Where: Champaign
Date(s): 10/25/2025  – 10/25/2025
Highlights: Watch the Lumberjack Show perform demonstrations throughout this FREE event, along with beer, live music, games, food and more.

CU Pride Parade and Fest

Where: Urbana
Date(s): 10/25/2025  –
Highlights: Join thousands of LGBTQ+ folx and allies in celebrating all things PRIDE and check out all of the incredible artisans, resources, local businesses, and other INCREDIBLE vendors in downtown Urbana. Be sure to be front row for when the parade steps off at 1pm and help celebrate all things LOVE and PRIDE!