Calendar of Events
2011
January
8 Special Olympic Winter Games, Bureau
29-30 Sauk Trail Gun Show, Bureau
February
13 2nd Sunday Flea Market, www.bureaucountyfair.com Bureau
County Fairgrounds,
27 Ladd CIA Chicken Dinner, CIA Church
Hall, Ladd
March
4-6 25th Anniversary of MWC Tournament, www.spring-valley-walleye.org,
Barto Landing,
5-6 Covered Bridge Quilters Guild Quilt Show,
Bureau
12 Huge Winter Garage
23 Farm Bureau Ag Fair, Bureau
26-27 Sauk Trail Gun Show, Bureau
April
3 Festival 56, Neil Diamond Tribute- The
Diamond Image, The
10 Chamber Farm Toy Show, Bureau Valley
North School Gym, Walnut, fts@villageofwalnut.com
11 2nd Sunday Flea Market, www.bureaucountyfair.com, Bureau
County Fairgrounds,
14-17 Friends of the Princeton Public Library Used
Book Sale, Bureau County Fairgrounds,
16 Spring Valley Earth Day Clean-up, www.spring-valley.il.us,
23 Wyanet Community Easter Egg
Hunt,
23 Spring Valley Easter Egg
Hunt, www.spring-valley.il.us,
May
7 DePue History Book signing, VFW Hall,
DePue
7-8
15 2nd Sunday Flea Market, 8:00 a.m.-3:00
p.m., $1 admission, www.bureaucountyfair.com,
Bureau County Fairgrounds,
30 “Rites of Spring Event”, Society of
Creative Anachronism, Bureau County Fairgrounds,
May – October
Sunset Ridge Moto-Cross Racing, www.sunsetridgemx.com
June
4
4
4-5
5 Starved Rock Radio Club Hamfest
& Computer Show, www.bureaucountyfair.com,
Bureau County Fairgrounds,
10-12 LaMoille Buffalo Days, LaMoille, www.buffalodays.org
11 Strawberry
Festival, Tiskilwa
11 Charity Wrestling Event, www.bureaucountyfair.com, Bureau
County Fairgrounds,
17-18 “More on 34” – 2 day garage sale, LaMoille,
Dover, Princeton, Wyanet, Sheffield, & Neponset www.moreon34.com
June 24-July 2 Festival 56, Songs for a New World, The
Beginning Mid June-August Farmers
Markets – Ladd, Spring Valley, &
July
1-3 Hometown Celebration Park District, Heaton
Shelter, Walnut, fts@villageofwalnut.com
3-31 The Taming of the Shrew, Wednesday and
Sunday free admission, Soldiers and
5, 12, 19 & 20 Family Night in DePue, DePue
5-12 Festival 56, Annie Get Your Gun, The Council Auditorium
7-9 Ladd Summer Fest, Ladd, (815) 894-3009
7-9 Wyanet Days Summer Fest, (815) 699-2224
8-15 Festival 56, Proof *winner of the 2001
Pulitzer Prize!*, The Grace Theatre
16 Music on Main,
16-17 Beef and Ag Days,
16-17 34th Annual “Ol’ Fashun Threshun Days”, Featuring
Allis Chalmers Tractors and Stover “K” Gas Engines,
16-24 Spring Valley's 125 Birthday Celebrations,
19-23 Festival 56, Twelve Angry People, The
21-24
22-29 Festival 56, Nunsense,
The Council Auditorium
23-28 150th Anniversary
of DePue, DePue, www.depue.mensclub.com
29-31 National Championship Boat Races, www.depue.mensclub.com
July 29-August 7 Festival 56, Kiss Me, Kate, The
August
4-6 Tiskilwa Pow Wow Days
6 Crusin' the Valley Car Show,
7 Windy Flyers,
24-28 Bureau County Fair, Bureau County
Fairgrounds,
September
8-11 Festival 56, The
Guys, The
9-11 Princeton Homestead Festival, www.visitprinceton-il.com
11 Homestead Festival Flea Market,
24 Kidlit,
October
7-8, 14-15,
21-22, 28-29
Nightmare on Fairgrounds Road, Bureau
County Fairgrounds,
8-9 Shadow of the Blue & Gray, Civil
War reenactment,
16 3rd
Sunday Flea Market, Bureau
16 Tiskilwa
Autumn Fest, Times and Events TBA
29 Lion's
Club Halloween Parade, (815) 663-1119,
29-30 Sauk
Trail Gun Show, Bureau
29
5 Mid American Pigeon Show, Bureau
11-19 Festival
56, Tuesdays with Morrie, The
12 Huge
Winter Garage
12 Christmas
in the Valley,
19 Northern
IL Model Train Fair & Farm Toy Show, Bureau
19-20 Princeton's
Christmas Open House, www.visitprinceton-il.com
26-27 Sauk
Trail Gun Show, Bureau
28 Walnut
Christmas Open House, Walnut, 815-379-2752
November 25 -
December 3 Festival 56, All the Great Books (Abridged)
3 Breakfast with Santa,
4 Christmas in the Village, Ladd
10 Lighted
Christmas Parade,
11 Nondenominational
Christmas Service, Historical
11- 23 Festival
56, It's a Wonderful Life, The
Antique Appraisal Show, First Christian Church, Walnut, 815-379-2752
3rd Annual Walnut Corn Picking
Celebration, Bolz Family Farm, Walnut,
815-878-2524
Please call ahead for dates and times as these may have change.