Union County Colorfest
Anna, IL · Festival
- When
- October 10, 2026
- Where
- Downtown Anna, Davie St / Lafayette St / S Main St · Anna · IL
- Cost
- Not confirmed
- Status
- Confirmed from the organizer's published schedule
Anna holds Colorfest each Columbus Day weekend, a downtown street festival timed to the fall color in the nearby Shawnee Hills. The city-run event features live music, local wineries, food trucks, and craft vendors along the historic downtown streets. It draws visitors from throughout southern Illinois.
The history within reach
- Union County Colorfestsame spot
Anna holds Colorfest each Columbus Day weekend, a downtown street festival timed to the fall color in the nearby Shawnee Hills.
The smallest crowd of the seven, about fourteen hundred people, deep in the southern counties that called themselves Egypt and voted with the South.
Illinois ran one basketball tournament for every school in the state regardless of size, and in 1964 a town of about a thousand people in the orchard country reached the final and lost by nine.
Alto Vineyards, the founding winery of the Shawnee Hills Wine Trail, hosts a Harvest Festival each September with live music and a fireworks finale.
A cross a hundred and eleven feet tall on the highest ground in southern Illinois, visible for miles at night and paid for in part by farm families donating the money from selling chickens.