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HOOPESTON, Ill. (WAND) - Organizers with the National Sweetcorn Festival in Hoopeston announced the event is postponed until September 2021. A Facebook post from the event page said postponement ...
Aug. 31—HOOPESTON — The National Sweetcorn Festival begins Thursday and will run through Monday, Sept. 4 at McFerren Park in Hoopeston, located at West Penn Street and Illinois 1.
The National Sweetcorn Festival in Hoopeston, Illinois ... its delightful combination of small-town charm and plenty of free ...
The 67th National Hoopeston Sweetcorn Festival offered hundreds of visitors free sweetcorn, the National Sweetcorn Pageant, carnival rides, a car show and plenty of entertainment as well as flea ...
J. Clingenpeel talks about the corn cooking process at the Hoopeston Sweet Corn Festival on Monday, September 5, 2016. Have a question for 25-year Vermilion County beat writer Jennifer Bailey?
Hoopeston prides itself on being the original "Sweetcorn Capital of the World." So it seems reasonable that their high school mascot would honor the people who harvested the city's banner crop ...
The 66th annual National Sweetcorn Festival at Hoopeston will open Thursday and ... a grand parade, free sweet corn, music and magic, petting zoo, pony and camel rides and more.