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East Peoria Festival of Lights
East Peoria, IL · Holiday
- When
- November 21, 2026 – January 3, 2027
- Where
- East Peoria · IL
- Cost
- Not confirmed
- Status
- Confirmed from the organizer's published schedule
A holiday light festival that opens with the Parade of Lights and runs through early January with Folepi's Winter Wonderland, a drive-through display of lighted trains, a blue whale, a paddlewheeler and more. Run through the City of East Peoria, it has lit the town for over 40 years. Its mascot is a wooden soldier named Folepi.
The history within reach
Two California firms merged and moved the works to the Illinois River, where the track-laying tractor became the machine that built the interstates, the Alaska Highway and most of the airfields of the Second World War.
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A vaudeville town of the right size in the right place, so booking agents used it to find out whether an act worked on ordinary audiences before spending money on the cities.
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- Richard Pryor2.9 mi
Born in Peoria and raised in his grandmother's brothel, where his mother worked, a childhood he later put on stage without softening any of it.
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