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Groundhog Days
Woodstock, IL · Quirky
- When
- January 29 – February 2, 2027
- Where
- Woodstock Square · Woodstock · IL
- Cost
- Not confirmed
- Status
- Confirmed from the organizer's published schedule
Woodstock's historic square, the filming location of the movie Groundhog Day, hosts a week of festivities each late January built around a live groundhog's prognostication ceremony. Events include a chili cook-off, a pub crawl, and a reenactment of the film's dinner dance scene.
The history within reach
- Groundhog Dayssame spot
Woodstock's historic square, the filming location of the movie Groundhog Day, hosts a week of festivities each late January built around a live groundhog's prognostication ceremony.
- Groundhog Daysame spot
Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania in the film is actually this town square in Illinois, chosen because the real Punxsutawney did not photograph as well.
Welles arrived at the Todd School here in 1926, aged ten, out of a chaotic childhood, and later said that if he tried to think of a home, this was it.
Around five hundred pieces of rolling stock sit on a former interurban right-of-way in a cornfield at Union, which makes the Illinois Railway Museum the largest railway museum in the United States.
Illinois ran one basketball tournament for every school in the state regardless of size, and in 1952 a high school in Hebron with ninety-eight pupils in it won the thing, beating Quincy 64-59 in overtime.